Living beings and vital powers : an introduction / Penelope Dransart -- Being together with animals : death, violence and noncruelty in Hindu imagination / Veena Das -- The nature of nature in Ramon Llull / Sarah Jane Boss -- The tree of Gernika : political poetics of rootedness and belonging / Safet HadéziMuhamedoviâc -- Bringing the forest to the city : spaces imagined in Israeli sacred song circles / Ronit Grossman-Horesh -- Sensuous photographies : living things explored through phenomenological practice / Carole Baker -- The field : an art experiment in Levinasian ethics / Alana Jelinek, with Juliette Brown -- Hunting the wild 'other' to become a man : wildlife tourism and the modern identity crisis in Israeli safaris to East Africa / Rachel Ben-David -- Becoming-animal in the Chinese martial arts / D.S. Farrer -- Moral issues in engagements between animals and the environment / Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism and the study of language in primates / David Cockburn -- Dressed in furs : clothing and Yaghan multispecies engagements in Tierra del Fuego / Penelope Dransart -- Appendix: Modes of being and destinies of living beings in a Mexican book of fate / Penelope Dransart