Sociality

Nicholas J. Long is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Being Malay in Indonesia (NUS/NIAS/University of Hawai’i Press, 2013) and the co-editor of Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (Routledge, 2012) and The Social Life of Achievement (Berghahn Books, 2013).

“This book reclaims sociality as a research domain for socio-cultural anthropology, as it clearly emphasises the processual and biosocial character of sociality instead of looking at it as a product of social relations or as a biological capacity. The ethnographic case studies provide fine examples of the ever-changing forms in which humans relate to each other, to animals and to the environment, and of how they infuse objects and actions with meaning, as well as anticipate the future and imagine possible worlds.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale"An ambitious book that aims to put both the concept and changing empirical status of sociality at the center of the agenda of anthropology and the social sciences more broadly… The contributions are all at a high level."  ·  Webb Keane, University of Michigan

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Sociality’s New DirectionsNicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. MooreChapter 2. Avatars and Robots: The Imaginary Present and the Socialities of the InorganicHenrietta L. Moore Chapter 3. Imagining the World that Warrants Our Imagination: The Revelation of OntogenyChristina TorenChapter 4. Sociality and Its Dangers: Witchcraft, Intimacy and TrustPeter GeschiereChapter 5. Group Belonging in Trade Unions: Idioms of Sociality in Bolivia and ArgentinaSian LazarChpater 6. A Sociality of, and Beyond, ‘My-home’ in Post-corporate JapanAnne Allison Chapter 7. Actants Amassing (AA)Adam Yuet ChauChapter 8. Doing, Being and Becoming: The Sociality of Children with Autism in Activities with Therapy Dogs and Other PeopleOlga SolomonChapter 9. Materials and SocialitySusanne KüchlerChapter 10. The Art of Slow Sociality: Movement, Aesthetics and Shared UnderstandingJo Vergunst and Anna VermehrenNotes on ContributorsIndex