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João Guilherme Bieh ; Peter Andrew Locke

Unfinished : the anthropology of becoming /João Guilherme Biehl; Peter Andrew Locke - Durham : Duke University Press , 2017. - xiii, 382 pages ;24 cm.

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.


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.

ISBN: 9780822369455

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Sciences

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Sociology & anthropology--Ethnosociology

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01 BIE