List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Photographs

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements

Prelude: Affectus, or Carving Emptiness into the Body
Kyoko Nakamura

Introduction: Toward the Affective Worldview
Tadashi Yanai and Ryoko Nishii

Part I: Theoretical Horizon of the Affective Worldview

1 Plants and Humans as Affective Beings: An Exploration in Spinozist Anthropology
Tadashi Yanai
2 Affection from the Rainforest: Anthropology of Resonance and Beating
Suehisa Kuroda

Part II: Affects and the Virtuality of Life

3 The House and Mourning: Affectus, Things and the Dead
Ryoko Nishii
4 ‘Dreams and Fools that Eat Us’: Cases of Affectus in a ‘Shadow’
Community of Southeast Sudan
Akira Okazaki
5 Affectus, Which Gives Life: A Case of Baptism
in Western Niger
Yutaka Sakuma

Part III: Affects and the Sociality of Life

6 Dermal Architecture: Romanian Roma Houses and Music
as Sites of Affectus
Ayako Iwatani
7 Boundaries, Movements and Rhythms: Aspects of ‘Drumming’
in Byans and Adjacent Regions
Katsuo Nawa
8 Re-Describing ‘the Gift’: Towards a New Theory of ‘Gift-giving’
Naoki Kasuga

Part IV: Looking Further Afield

9 Technology on Affectus: Machines and Humans in
Japanese Chess Today
Akinori Kubo
10 Postures/Emotions of Recollection and Their Fluctuations:
On the Technology of the Forensic Interview
Kotaro Takagi
11 The Unresolved Problem of ‘Political Philosophy’ in Deleuze and
Gauttari’s What is Philosophy? from the Perspective of
‘Natural Born Intelligence’ and ‘Anthropology of Images’
Kazunori Kondo
12 Form of Cognition by Which the Outside Is Summoned
Yukio-Pegio Gunji

Conclusion
Tadashi Yanai

Index