Making and Growing

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question, examining the implications for our understanding of materials, design and creativity.

'A provocative response to the so-called post-human turn in contemporary social theory, this volume concertedly blurs the boundaries between human design and vital process - the being of artefacts and the becoming of life. The result is a pulsating adventure into the inner workings of things' and people's co-constitution through processes of growth, decay and their ever-mutual transformations.' Martin Holbraad, University College London, UK 'This refreshing and far-reaching collection challenges many of the analytical distinctions inherent in recent anthropological investigations of the relationship between persons and things. Drawing on a range of nuanced studies, the authors demonstrate different and often unexpected ways that making and growing are intrinsically interrelated. An indispensable volume for social scientists and historians interested in the emergence of new biological, social and artefactual forms.' Anita Herle, University of Cambridge, UK 'Through the device of juxtaposing making and growing, the contributions to Making and Growing offer refreshing perspectives on material culture and its processes that attend to the transformability of things and present object lessons in the co-constitution of organisms, artifacts, and understanding.' Huntington Library Quarterly

Autorentext
Elizabeth Hallam is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and Research Associate in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of the forthcoming Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed, co-author of Death, Memory and Material Culture, and co-editor of Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future, and Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. Tim Ingold is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is the author of The Perception of the Environment, Being Alive, Lines, and Making, editor of Redrawing Anthropology, and co-editor of Ways of Walking and Imagining Landscapes.

Inhalt
Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Making and Growing, Tim Ingold, Elizabeth Hallam; Chapter 2 Silk Production, Jacqueline Field; Chapter 3 Between Nature and Art, Pamela H. Smith; Chapter 4 Anatomopoeia, Elizabeth Hallam; Chapter 5 Artefacts and Bodies among Kuna People from Panamá, Paolo Fortis; Chapter 6 Designing Body-Pots in the Formative La Candelaria Culture, Northwest Argentina, Benjamin Alberti; Chapter 7 Stitching Lives, Nancy Wachowich; Chapter 8 Gardening and Wellbeing, Anne Jepson; Chapter 9 Making Plants and Growing Baskets, Stephanie Bunn; Chapter 10 Skill and Aging, Trevor H.J. Marchand; Chapter 11 Movement in Making, Frances Liardet; Chapter 12 Growing Granite, David A. Paton, Caitlin DeSilvey;