Full Description
This book looks at the concept of symbiosis as a means of understanding how humans and other life forms live together. Working from the starting point that being alive is necessarily being-in-relation to others, The Anthropology of Humans With Others investigates the anthropological implications for society and the academy in investigating our relations with other life forms.
Divided into three parts, the book begins with the biome, and an investigation into the way human life and health depend on the symbioses of organisms from microbes to fungi. The second part turns to the hybrid communities formed in relations between human beings and other animals. The third part looks to the human community itself to focus on the collaborative creation of architectures and spaces for living together with difference. Across these investigations the central idea of symbiosis is interrogated and developed: first as a way of differentiating life types; second as a way of delineating community types; and finally in its role in scholarship, with a consideration of the ethical implications of studying with others, rather than making studies of them. This last raises questions that extend beyond the current collection to address the academy, such as: how can scholarship be a practice of care, and how might a truly symbiotic scholarship go beyond current efforts to work across disciplines?
Bringing together a stellar range of junior and senior scholars to engage in this dialogue, and curated by world renowned anthropologist Tim Ingold, with Julien Dugnoille, the text offers a new insight into work on humans with animals and other life forms and will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, zoology, human-animal studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and design.
Contents
1. Introduction: Life, Symbiosis. Community and Scholarship, Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK and Julien Dugnoille, University of Exeter, UK
Part One: Vital Symbioses
Foreword: Biology as Process, Biology in Progress, John Dupre, University of Exeter, UK
2. Geographies of Contagian, Logics of Containment, Steve Hinchcliffe, University of Exeter, UK; Ian Harper, University of Edinburgh, UK, Christos Lynteris, University of Cambridge, UK, Frederic Keck, Quai Branly Museum, France, Ann H. Kelly, Kings College London, UK
3. A Proletariat of Diggers. Engineers and Worms in Practices of Soil Construction, Germain Meulemans, University of Aberdeen, UK
4. Anatomist' Collaborations with Artists: Medical Explorations in Plaster, Paint and Mixed-Media, Elizabeth Hallam, University of Aberdeen and Oxford, UK
5. Symbiosis, Coordination, History, Landscape, Anna Tsing, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Part Two: Human Symbioses with Other Animals
Foreword: Improving Human and Nonhuman Lives with Anthrozoological Research, Julien Dugnoille, University of Exeter, UK
6. Equine Depictions in the Paleolithic Cave Paintings of Chauvey, Susan Moulton, Sonomia State University, USA
7. Human-Bovoid Dwellings in Hong Kong: Challenging Post-Domestic and Cosmopolitan Human and Bovoid Entanglements, Daisy Bisenieks, University of Exeter, UK
8. Legitimizing Practices of Care and Harm Towards Nonhuman Animals in South Korea Today, Julien Dugnoille, University of Exeter, UK
9. Eastern European Immigrants in the British Dog-Showing Community, Chrissie Wanner, University of Edinburgh, UK
Part Three: Architectural Symbioses
Foreword: New Directions in Anthropology, Architecture and Design, Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK, Fabiola Jara Gomez, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, Cristina Grasseni, University of Leiden, Holland, Alberto Altes Arlandis, University of Umea, Sweden
10. Designing with Homeless People, Valentina Porcellana, University of Turin, Italy, Christian Campagnaro, Turin Polytechnic, Italy
11. Threshold Machines: How Sanja Matsuri Makes Asakusa, Raymond Lucas, University of Manchester, UK, Darren Deane, University of Westminster, UK
12. Architecture Pedagogy in a Neoliberal World, Krzysztof Nawratek, University of Sheffield, Simon Bradbury, University of Plymouth, UK
13. An Ethnography of the Material Transformations in Romanian Blocks of Flats, Maria Salaru, University of Oxford, UK
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