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Prospect tim ingold Ensembles of biosocial relations gisli palsson Blurring the biological and social in human becomings a g u s t n f u e n t e s Life-in-the-making: epigenesis, biocultural environments and human becomings eugenia ramirez-goicoechea Thalassaemic lives as stories of becoming: mediated biologies and genetic (un)certainties aglaia chatjouli Shedding our selves: perspectivism, the bounded subject and the nature culture divide noa vaisman Reflections on a collective brain at work: one week in the working life of an NGO team in urban Morocco b a r b a r a g รงt s c h The habits of water: marginality and the sacralization of non-humans in North-Eastern Ghana gaetano mangiameli Bringing wood to life : lines, flows and materials in a Swazi sawmill vito laterza, bob forrester and patience mususa
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Humanity and life as the perpetual maintenance of specific efforts: a reappraisal of animism 191 istvan praet Ravelling/unravelling: being-in-the-world and falling-outof-the-world 211 hayder al-mohammad Retrospect 229 gisli palsson
References Notes on the contributors Index
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