Nature, culture, and society : anthropological perspectives on life /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- note: 1 Introduction
- 1.1. What, then, is life?
- 1.2. biosocial turn
- 1.3. Biosocial relations
- 1.4. Moving concepts
- I. Selves
- 2. Spitting image: decode me!
- 2.1. From physical anthropology to molecular anthropology
- 2.2. Personal genomics, via Oxford and Reykjavik
- 2.3. deCODEme: a somewhat personal guided tour
- 2.4. Cyberspace: the experts and the rest
- 2.5. From genome to identity
- 2.6. Conclusions
- 3. Laboring lives: genomic stuff
- 3.1. Producing bodies
- 3.2. organic and the inorganic
- 3.3. Conclusions
- 4. Whats in a genome? Indigenous encounters
- 4.1. Inuit contexts
- 4.2. Silk Road of the Arctic
- 4.3. IGHP: a brief ethnography
- 4.4. Research practices: the Arctic and beyond
- 4.5. Conclusions
- 5. Name talk: technologies of belonging
- 5.1. Technologies of naming
- 5.2. Inuit name talk
- 5.3. Renaming
- 5.4. Names, populations, and ethnic groups
- 5.5. Conclusions
- II. Bodies
- 6. Human variation: shifting perspectives
- 6.1. Physical and biological anthropology
- 6.2. relational superhuman
- 6.3. Human variation after the biosocial turn
- 7. Nim Chimpsky et al: human-animal relations
- 7.1. Reports to the academy: almost human, almost chimpanzee
- 7.2. life and work of Nim Chimpsky
- 7.3. Becoming primates, becoming human
- 7.4. Why language?
- 7.5. Human--animal relations of production
- 7.6. Conclusions
- 8. Lucy in the sky: celestial bodies
- 8.1. Foetal space
- 8.2. Out of Africa, out of Earth
- III. Biospheres
- 9. Enskilment at sea: situated knowledge
- 9.1. Learning theory
- 9.2. Getting ones sea legs
- 9.3. Differential fishing success
- 9.4. flow and momentum of fishing
- 9.5. Apprenticeship and attentiveness
- 9.6. Conclusions
- 10. Environmental relations: political economies
- 10.1. political economy of the environment
- 10.2. Orientalist exploitation
- 10.3. Paternalist protection
- 10.4. Communalism
- 10.5. Conclusions
- 11. Modernity and beyond: the grand aquarium
- 11.1. Environmental anthropology
- 11.2. Icelandic fishing
- 11.3. Experts and laypersons
- 11.4. Beyond the modernist aquarium
- 11.5. Conclusions
- 12. Housekeeping: Oikos and the Anthropocene
- 12.1. Concerns with housekeeping: from the doors inward
- 12.2. Anthropogenic change
- 12.3. Icarus in the heat: the plowman and the splash
- 13. Afterword
- 13.1. Styles and context
- 13.2. Disciplining thoughts
- 13.3. house and the body
- 13.4. Environmental politics and theory
- 13.5. Key questions.