Contributors PrefaceAcknowledgements 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.