Biehl / Joao Biehl / Locke Unfinished

The Anthropology of Becoming
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7245-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

The contributors to Unfinished explore the ethnographic essay's expressive potentials by pursuing an anthropology of becoming, which attends to the contingency of lived experience and provides new means to represent what life means and how it can be represented.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biehl, João

Joao Biehl, Biehl

Locke, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. Unfinished / João Biehl and Peter Locke ix
Introduction. Ethnographic Sensorium / João Biehl and Peter Locke 1
1. The Anthropology of Becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke 41
2. Becoming Aggrieved / Laurence Ralph 93
3. Heaven / Angela Garcia 111
4. Rebellious Matter / Bridget Purcell 133
5. Witness / Naisargi N. Dave 151
6. I Was Cannibalized by an Artist / Lilia M. Schwarcz 173
7. On Negative Becoming / Lucas Bessire 197
8. Time Machines / Elizabeth A. Davis 217
9. Horizoning / Adriana Petryna 243
10. Meantime / Peter Locke 269
11. Hereafter / João Biehl 278
Afterword. Zen Exercises: Anthropological Discipline and Ethics / Michael M. J. Fischer 293
Acknowledgments 317
Bibliography 319
Contributors 353
List of Illustrations 357
Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival.

Peter Locke is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Global Health Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.