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Jon Henrik Remme's book is fascinating both in terms of the ethnographic material he presents on the human relationship with pigs among the Ifugao-something which merits much more attention throughout SE Asia, where pigs are widely of considerable nutritional, social, and cosmological significance-and in terms of his focus on the ways in which pigs and humans are entangled, are part of each other and constitute each other. He draws on the relational philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari in his focus on the way in which pigs are involved in human 'becoming', as well as drawing on recent multi-species anthropology. I found his extension of both analytical approaches into what he describes as their 'dark' sides-prompted, as he says, by the punctuation of his fieldwork by the screams of dying pigs-interesting and thought-provoking in relation to its implications for understanding the boundaries of living beings, both spatially and temporally, in the context of a relational approach to understanding the meaning of 'being a being'. -- Monica Janowski, University of London

Jon Henrik Remme's book is fascinating both in terms of the ethnographic material he presents on the human relationship with pigs among the Ifugao-something which merits much more attention throughout SE Asia, where pigs are widely of considerable nutritional, social, and cosmological significance-and in terms of his focus on the ways in which pigs and humans are entangled, are part of each other and constitute each other. He draws on the relational philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari in his focus on the way in which pigs are involved in human 'becoming', as well as drawing on recent multi-species anthropology. I found his extension of both analytical approaches into what he describes as their 'dark' sides-prompted, as he says, by the punctuation of his fieldwork by the screams of dying pigs-interesting and thought-provoking in relation to its implications for understanding the boundaries of living beings, both spatially and temporally, in the context of a relational approach to understanding the meaning of 'being a being'. -- Monica Janowski, University of London Pigs and Persons in the Philippines is a treasure trove of ethnographically nuanced and theoretically sophisticated analysis. Through an innovative re-reading of the Ifugao through their pigs, Remme makes an original and powerful contribution to the ethnography of Southeast Asia and the anthropology of personhood and sociality. The book traces the intricate ways in which domesticated pigs mediate Ifugao relations with human and non-human consociates across the spheres of kinship, ritual, and politics. Through lively and engaging prose it vividly evokes the concrete processes whereby Ifugao selves and society are constituted through exchange of pigs, and makes a compelling case for how kinship and spirit relations are constructed through the practices through which they are enacted. -- Kenneth Sillander, University of Helsinki An avid and marvelously thorough account of human and porcine entanglements in Batad, Ifugao. -- Harold C. Conklin, Yale University

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Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme is post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Oslo. Remme has published articles on a number of themes including animism, ontology, causality, and interreligious burial rituals.

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