{"product_id":"us-relatives-nurit-bird-david-9780520293403","title":"Us, Relatives: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World Volume 12","description":"Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies.\u003ci\u003e Us, Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e explores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures and the debates they inspire. Drawing on her long-term research with a community of South Asian foragers, Nurit Bird-David provides a scale-sensitive ethnography of these people as she encountered them in the late 1970s and reflects on the intellectual journey that led her to new understandings of their lifeways and horizons. She elaborates on indigenous modes of \"being many\" that have been eclipsed by scale-blind anthropology, which generally uses its large-scale conceptual language of persons, relations, and ethnic groups for even tiny communities. Through the idea of\u003ci\u003e pluripresence\u003c\/i\u003e, Bird-David reveals a mode of plural life that encompasses a diversity of humans and nonhumans through notions of kinship and shared life. She argues that this mode of belonging subverts the modern ontological touchstone of \"imagined communities,\" rooted not in sameness among dispersed strangers but in intimacy among relatives of infinite diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nurit Bird-David\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520293401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520293403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2017","brand":"Nurit Bird-David","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065002209535,"sku":"9780520293403","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b0f5c56-2fef-4814-980b-cfdfcbfc48bb.jpg?v=1768672485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/us-relatives-nurit-bird-david-9780520293403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}