Nature, Culture, and Society : Anthropological Perspectives on Life (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; Part I. Selves: 2. Spitting image: decode me!; 3. Labouring lives: genomic stuff; 4. What's in a genome? Indigenous encounters; 5. Name talk: technologies of belonging; Part II. Bodies: 6. Human variation: shifting perspectives; 7. Nim Chimpsky et al.: human-animal relations; 8. Lucy in the sky: celestial bodies; Part III. Biospheres: 9. Enskilment at sea: situated knowledge; 10. Environmental relations: political economies; 11. Modernity and beyond: the grand aquarium; 12. Housekeeping: oikos and the anthropocene; 13. Afterword.