Foreword. Unfinished / João Biehl and Peter Locke  ix
Introduction. Ethnographic Sensorium / João Biehl and Peter Locke  1
1. The Anthropology of Becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke  41
2. Becoming Aggrieved / Laurence Ralph  93
3. Heaven / Angela Garcia  111
4. Rebellious Matter / Bridget Purcell  133
5. Witness / Naisargi N. Dave  151
6. I Was Cannibalized by an Artist / Lilia M. Schwarcz  173
7. On Negative Becoming / Lucas Bessire  197
8. Time Machines / Elizabeth A. Davis  217
9. Horizoning / Adriana Petryna  243
10. Meantime / Peter Locke  269
11. Hereafter / João Biehl  278
Afterword. Zen Exercises: Anthropological Discipline and Ethics / Michael M. J. Fischer  293
Acknowledgments  317
Bibliography  319
Contributors  353
List of Illustrations  357
Index  359

Naisargi N. Dave

Lucas Bessire

Elizabeth Anne Davis

Michael M. J. Fischer

Angela Garcia

Adriana Petryna

Laurence Ralph

Bridget Purcell

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

"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

"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

"As prismatic points arrayed around questions of theory and method, these exceptional essays provide very precise contexts in which modes of thought and being and problematics of futures literally take shape. They pull into line with their subjects, moving sideways to follow them, getting out of their way, listening, noticing. Each ending up with a striking image. Making powerful interventions into basic problematics of anthropological subjects and objects, Unfinished is a major contribution to cultural theory." — Kathleen Stewart, author of, Ordinary Affects

"A rich, timely, and important work, Unfinished articulates the philosophical terms of an approach to anthropology that attends to becoming and generativity in life in a number of ethnographic contexts. By creatively exploring and employing the formation of Gilles Deleuze's ideas, Unfinished offers an integrative relation between philosophical theory and anthropological thought in superbly original and lasting ways." — Robert Desjarlais, author of, Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

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