
Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, and the experiences of light, sound and feeling. This edition includes a new preface by the author.

Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural,...


Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, and the experiences of light, sound and feeling. This edition includes a new preface by the author.