Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts / edited by by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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Making and growing: an Introduction / Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam -- Silk production: moths, mulberry and metamorphosis / Jacqueline Field -- Between nature and art: casting from life in sixteenth-century Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- Anatomopoeia / Elizabeth Hallam -- Artefacts and bodies among Kuna people / Panamá Paolo Fortis -- Designing body-pots in the formative La Candelaria culture, Northwest Argentina / Benjamin Alberti -- Stitching lives: a family history of making Caribou skin clothing in the Canadian arctic / Nancy Wachowich -- Gardening and wellbeing: a view from the ground / Anne Jepson -- Making plants and growing baskets / Stephanie Bunn -- Skill and aging: perspectives from three generations of English wood workers / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- Movement in making: an apprenticeship with glass and fire / Frances Liardet -- Growing granite: the recombinant geologies of sludge / David A. Paton and Caitlin DeSilvey.

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. Grounding their arguments in case studies from different regions and historical periods, the contributors to this volume show how making and growing give rise to co-produced and mutually modifying organisms and artefacts, including human persons. They attend to the properties of materials and to the forms of knowledge and sensory experience involved in these processes, and explore the dynamics of making and undoing, growing and decomposition. The book will be of broad interest to scholars in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, material culture studies, history and sociology.

English.

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