Living beings : perspectives on interspecies engagements
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Living beings : perspectives on interspecies engagements
（A.S.A. monographs, 50）
Bloomsbury, 2013
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"The chapters in this book are based on a selection of papers presented at the 2011 annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (ASA), which met in Lampter, Wales, under the title 'Vital Powers and Politics : Human Interactions with Living Things'"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Living beings and vital powers : an introduction / Penelope Dransart
- Being together with animals : death, violence and noncruelty in Hindu imagination / Veena Das
- The nature of nature in Ramon Llull / Sarah Jane Boss
- The tree of Gernika : political poetics of rootedness and belonging / Safet HadžiMuhamedović
- Bringing the forest to the city : spaces imagined in Israeli sacred song circles / Ronit Grossman-Horesh
- Sensuous photographies : living things explored through phenomenological practice / Carole Baker
- The field : an art experiment in Levinasian ethics / Alana Jelinek, with Juliette Brown
- Hunting the wild 'other' to become a man : wildlife tourism and the modern identity crisis in Israeli safaris to East Africa / Rachel Ben-David
- Becoming-animal in the Chinese martial arts / D.S. Farrer
- Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism and the study of language in primates / David Cockburn
- Dressed in furs : clothing and Yaghan multispecies engagements in Tierra del Fuego / Penelope Dransart
- Appendix: modes of being and destinies of living beings in a Mexican book of fate / Penelope Dransart
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.Many discussions of such relationships highlight the exceptional qualities of the human members of the category, insisting for instance on their religious beliefs or creativity. In contrast, the international case studies in this volume dissect views based on hierarchical oppositions between human and other living beings. Although human practices may sometimes appear to exist in a realm beyond nature, they are nevertheless subject to the pull of natural forces. These forces may be brought into prominence through a consideration of the interactions between human beings and other inhabitants of the natural world.The interplay in this book between social anthropologists, philosophers and artists cuts across species divisions to examine the experiential dimensions of interspecies engagements. In ethnographically and/or historically contextualized chapters, contributors examine the juxtaposition of human and other living beings in the light of themes such as wildlife safaris, violence, difference, mimicry, simulation, spiritual renewal, dress and language.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Living Beings and Vital PowersPenny Dransart, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UKInterspecies Interaction Being-together with Animals: Death, Violence and Non-cruelty in Hindu Imagination.Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, USASymbolic Meanings Between People and Trees/ForestsThe Nature of Nature in Ramon LlullSarah Jane Boss, Roehampton University, UKThe Tree of Guernica: Political Poetics of Rootedness and BelongingSafet Hadzimuhamedovic, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKBringing the Forest to the City: Spaces Imagined in Israeli 'Sacred Song Circles'Ronit Grossman-Horesh, The Open University of Israel/Tel-Aviv University, IsraelInterspecies Interaction in Physical SettingsSensuous Photographies: Living Things Explored through Phenomenological Practice Carole Baker, University of Plymouth, UKThe Field: An Art Experiment in Biopower in a Woodland Near Stansted Airport, EssexAlana Jelinek, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UKHuman Responses to 'Wildness'Hunting the Wild 'Other' to Become a Man: wildlife Tourism and the Modern Identity Crisis in Israeli Safaris to East AfricaRachel Ben David, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelBecoming Animal in the Chinese Martial ArtsD. S. Farrer, University of Guam, GuamMoral Issues in Engagements Between Animals and the Environment'Anthropomorphism', 'Anthropocentrism' and the Study of Language in PrimatesDavid Cockburn, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UKDressed in Furs: Clothing and Yaghan Multispecies Engagements in Tierra del FuegoPenelope Dransart, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UKBibliographyIndex
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