Emergent forms of life and the anthropological voice / Michael M.J. Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Michael M. J., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropological ethics.

Visual anthropology.

Intercultural communication.

Communication in anthropology.

Physical Description:

xii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Anthropology as Cultural Critique helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, pathbreaking scholar Michael M. J. Fischer moves the discussion to a consideration of the groundwork laid in the 1990s for engagements with the fast-changing worlds of technoscience, telemedia saturation, and the reconstruction of societies after massive trauma. A vigorous advocate of the anthropological voice and method, Fischer suggests that ethnography is uniquely situated to gather and convey observations fundamental to the creation of new social institutions for an evolving civil society. He points the way toward a reinvigorated cultural and social anthropology characterized by a continued insistence on empirical fieldwork, engagements with other disciplines, and dialogue with interlocutors around the globe.

Contents:

Prologue: The Third Spaces of Anthropology 1

Emergent Forms of Life

1 Deep Play and Social Responsibility in Vienna 29

2 Emergent Forms of Life: Anthropologies of Late or Post Modernities 37

Critique within Technoscientific Worlds

3 Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: Iranian Cinema in a Teletechnological World 61

4 Cultural Critique with a Hammer, Gouge, and Woodblock: Art and Medicine in the Age of Social Retraumatization 90

5 Ethnographic Critique and Technoscientific Narratives: The Old Mole, Ethical Plateaus, and the Governance of Emergent Biosocial Polities 145

Subjectivities in an Age of Global Connectivity

6 Autobiographical Voices (1, 2, 3) and Mosaic Memory: Ethnicity, Religion, Science (An Inquiry into the Nature of Autobiographical Genres and Their Uses in Extending Social Theory) 179

7 Post-Avant-Garde Tasks of Polish Film: Ethnographic Odklamane 225

New Pedagogies and Ethics

8 Worlding Cyberspace: Toward a Critical Ethnography in Space, Time, and Theory 261

9 Calling the Future(s): Delay Call Forwarding 305

I. Las Meninas and Robotic-Virtual Surgical Systems: The Visual Thread/Fiber-Optic Carrier 309

II. Modules for a Science, Technology, and Society Curriculum: STS@theTurn_[]ooo.mit.edu 333

10 In the Science Zone: The Yanomami and the Fight for Representation 370

Epilogue: On Distinguishing Good and Evil in Emergent Forms of Life (Woodblock Print to Newspaper Illustration) 393.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-461) and index.

ISBN:

0822332256

0822332388

OCLC:

52799604