Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, this volume demonstrates how anthropology can move forward in tandem with discoveries in the biological sciences, reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture. The chapters combine wide-ranging theoretical argument with in-depth discussion of material from recent or ongoing field research.
Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.
Advance praise: 'Biosocial Becomings is a thought-provoking collection of essays on the current re-negotiation of the boundaries between the biological and the social in the study of humans. The subtitle of the book promises a new integration of social and biological anthropology after a long century of divorce. It does more: it explores a conceptual space that is no longer dominated by the dichotomy between nature and culture.' Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
