Anthropological Futures

Informationen zum Autor Michael M. J. Fischer Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung A leading anthropological theorist investigates how emerging knowledge formations in molecular biology, environmental studies, computer science, and bioengineering are transforming some of anthropology s key concepts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Michael Fischer, Michael M J Fischer, Michael M. J. Fischer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2009
• EAN: 9780822344612
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4461-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo; Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology