Near human: border zones of species, life, and belonging
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Beteilige Person: Svendsen, Mette N. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick ; Camden Rutgers University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Medical anthropology
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Abstract:Illustrations -- Series foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Substitution -- Multi-species ethnography -- The anthropology of morality -- Belonging -- Pigs and people in Denmark -- Collaborative research -- The organization of the book -- Feeding : cows, pigs, and humans in interspecies kinship -- Interspecies kinship -- Danish pig breeding and pork production -- Collecting cow colostrum at the farm -- Feeding piglets in the animal facility -- Feeding infants in the NICU -- Cow colostrum for NICU infants -- Making cow colostrum bioavailable -- Killing : Pigs as Sacrificeable Beings -- Approaching life, suffering and death in experimental practices -- Getting the piglets up and running -- Caring for piglets -- Moral perils -- Granting death -- Turning piglets into samples -- Becoming and ceasing to be killable -- The temporal horizons of sacrifice -- Treating : infants at the margins of life -- Biological and biographical life in the NICU -- Kinship and the fabrication of a biographical life -- Social relations : placing the child in family and welfare state -- Time: imagining the future -- Space : tracing lives through death -- Resource discussions in the NICU -- Selective reproductive politics in Denmark -- Juxtaposing human and pig, past and present -- Metabolizing : humans and nonhumans in a global field -- Cow colostrum for China -- Unsettled boundaries -- Settled boundaries for pigs -- Settled boundaries for humans -- Porkpolitics -- Metabolizing life -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements
Illustrations -- Series foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Substitution -- Multi-species ethnography -- The anthropology of morality -- Belonging -- Pigs and people in Denmark -- Collaborative research -- The organization of the book -- Feeding : cows, pigs, and humans in interspecies kinship -- Interspecies kinship -- Danish pig breeding and pork production -- Collecting cow colostrum at the farm -- Feeding piglets in the animal facility -- Feeding infants in the NICU -- Cow colostrum for NICU infants -- Making cow colostrum bioavailable -- Killing : Pigs as sacrificeable beings -- Approaching life, suffering and death in experimental practices -- Getting the piglets up and running -- Caring for piglets -- Moral perils -- Granting death -- Turning piglets into samples -- Becoming and ceasing to be killable -- The temporal horizons of sacrifice -- Treating : infants at the margins of life -- Biological and biographical life in the NICU -- Kinship and the fabrication of a biographical life -- Social relations : placing the child in family and welfare state -- Time : imagining the future -- Space : tracing lives through death -- Resource discussions in the NICU -- Selective reproductive politics in Denmark -- Juxtaposing human and pig, past and present -- Metabolizing : humans and nonhumans in a global field -- Cow colostrum for China -- Unsettled boundaries -- Settled boundaries for pigs -- Settled boundaries for humans -- Porkpolitics -- Metabolizing life -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Umfang:xiv, 212 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781978818217
9781978818224