Unfinished

JoÃo Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival.Peter Locke is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Global Health Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.

• Foreword. Unfinished / JoÃo Biehl and Peter Locke  ixIntroduction. Ethnographic Sensorium / JoÃo Biehl and Peter Locke  11. The Anthropology of Becoming / JoÃo Biehl and Peter Locke  412. Becoming Aggrieved / Laurence Ralph  933. Heaven / Angela Garcia  1114. Rebellious Matter / Bridget Purcell  1335. Witness / Naisargi N. Dave  1516. I Was Cannibalized by an Artist / Lilia M. Schwarcz  1737. On Negative Becoming / Lucas Bessire  1978. Time Machines / Elizabeth A. Davis  2179. Horizoning / Adriana Petryna  24310. Meantime / Peter Locke  26911. Hereafter / JoÃo Biehl  278Afterword. Zen Exercises: Anthropological Discipline and Ethics / Michael M. J. Fischer  293Acknowledgments  317Bibliography  319Contributors  353List of Illustrations  357Index  359

"Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming promises to contribute to our understanding of this current moment of political and epistemological uncertainties, and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and writers from across the social and natural sciences and the humanities." - Onur Günay and Heath Pearson (Somatosphere) "As complex and ambitious as it is masterfully conceived. . . . A sign of renaissance in anthropology." - Roberto Costa (The Australian Journal of Anthropology) "Bringing the theme of becoming to the center of the anthropological debate is particularly timely in a context in which institutions, as well as the public, are discussing and interpreting society in ways that rely heavily on deterministic forms of schematism and simplification. . . . Unfinished could be an intriguing choice for professionals looking for a source of inspiration for new analytical approaches to study the dynamism of social phenomena." - Michele Fontefrancesco (Anthropology in Action) "Although theoretically complex, the contributors never lose sight of the individuals at the heart of ethnography. . . . What stands out is its intricate and intimate representation of human experience, which imbues it with authority and stays with the reader for a long time." - Heather Montgomery (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)