Michael M J Fischer

Anthropological Futures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social int

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344612
• ISBN-10: 0822344610
• Artikelnr.: 25871504

Autorenporträt

Michael M. J. Fischer

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue ix
1. Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems 1
2. Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a
Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology 51
3. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life 114
4. Body Marks (Bestial/Natural/Divine): An Essay on the Social and
Biotechnical Imaginaries, 1920-2008, and Bodies to Come 159
5. Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as
Transitional Object 197
6. Ask Not What Man Is But What We May Expect of Him 215
Conclusions and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and
Anthropological Futures 235
Epilogue: Postings from Anthropologies to Come 244
Notes 273
References 331
Index 379