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), held in Lampter, Wales, under the title "Vital Powers and Politics : Human Interactions with Living Things." (Preface)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 -- Moral issues in engagements between animals and the environment / 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.
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Human-animal relationships, Case studies.
Human-plant relationships, Case studies.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Dransart, Penny
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Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth., Conference(2011 :, Lampeter, Wales)