Research Catalog

Title

Unfinished : the anthropology of becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke, editors.

Publication

• Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biehl, João Guilherme
• Locke, Peter Andrew, 1979-

Description

xiii, 382 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical theory in a range of worlds on the edge, from war and its aftermath, economic transformation, racial inequality, and gun violence to religiosity, therapeutic markets, animal rights activism, and abrupt environmental change. Defying totalizing analytical schemes, these visionary essays articulate a human science of the uncertain and unknown and restore a sense of movement and possibility to ethics and political practice. Unfinished invites readers to consider the array of affects, ideas, forces, and objects that shape contemporary modes of existence and future horizons, opening new channels for critical thought and creative expression.

Subject

• Ethnology > Philosophy
• Anthropology > Philosophy
• Critical theory
• Ethnosociology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: Unfinished / João Biehl and Peter Locke -- Introduction: Ethnographic sensorium / João Biehl and Peter Locke -- The anthropology of becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke -- Becoming aggrieved: an alternative framework of care in black Chicago / Laurence Ralph -- Heaven / Angela Garcia -- Rebellious matter: the poetics of ritual space in a Turko-Syrian border town / Bridget Purcell -- Witness: humans, animals, and the politics of becoming / Naisargi N. Dave -- I was cannibalized by an artist: Adriana Varejão or art as flux / Lilia M. Schwarcz -- On negative becoming / Lucas Bessire -- Time machines: the matter of the missing in Cyprus / Elizabeth A. Davis -- Horizoning: the work of projection in abrupt climate change / Adriana Petryna -- Meantime / Peter Locke -- Hereafter / João Biehl -- Afterword. Zen exercises: anthropological discipline and ethics / Michael M.J. Fischer.

Call Number

JFE 18-824

ISBN

• 9780822369301
• 0822369303
• 9780822369455
• 0822369451

LCCN

2017024177

OCLC

968482909

Title

Unfinished : the anthropology of becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke, editors.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Biehl, João Guilherme, editor.

Locke, Peter Andrew, 1979- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-824