Posthumanism - Anthropological Insights

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were central to the lives that were narrated by anthropologists, but they extend the discussion to include contemporary issues like microbiomes, the Anthropocene, and nano-machines, which take holism beyond locally bounded spaces. They outline what a holism without boundaries could look like, and what anthropology could offer to the knowledge of more-than-human nature in the past, present, and future.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Posthumanism
2. Zoonotic Diseases and the Microbiome
3. Multispecies Ethnography
4. Technology, Cyborgs, and Transhumanism
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alan Smart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.

Josephine Smart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.

Zusammenfassung

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human."

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Smart, Alan Smart Smart, Josephine Smart
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781442636415
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-3641-5
• Seiten: 144
• Serien: Anthropological Insights; Anthropological Insights
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien