Biosocial becomings : integrating social and biological anthropology

TLDR: Palsson et al. as mentioned in this paper describe a collective brain at work: one week in the working life of an NGO-team in urban Marocco, and the habits of water: marginality and the sacralization of non-humans in North-Eastern Ghana.

Abstract: Preface 1. Prospect Tim Ingold 2. Ensembles of biosocial relations Gisli Palsson 3. Blurring the biological and social in human becomings Agustin Fuentes 4. Life-in-the-making: epigenesis, biocultural environments and human becomings Eugenia Ramirez-Goicoechea 5. Thalassemic lives as stories of becoming: mediated biologies and genetic (un)certainties Aglaia Chatjouli 6. Shedding our selves: perspectivism, the bounded subject and the nature-culture divide Noa Vaisman 7. Reflections on a collective brain at work: one week in the working life of an NGO-team in urban Marocco Barbara Elisabeth Gotsch 8. The habits of water: marginality and the sacralization of non-humans in North-Eastern Ghana Gaetano Mangiameli 9. 'Bringing wood to life': lines, flows and materials in a Swazi sawmill Vito Laterza, Bob Forrester and Patience Mususa 10. Humanity and life as the perpetual maintenance of specific efforts: a reappraisal of animism Istvan Praet 11. Ravelling/unravelling: being-in-the-world and falling-out-of-the-world Hayder Al-Mohammad 12. Retrospect Gisli Palsson Notes on the contributors References Index.