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Anthropological futures / Michael M. J. Fischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, Michael M. J., 1946-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology.
- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A leading anthropological theorist investigates how emerging knowledge formations in molecular biology, environmental studies, computer science, and bio-engineering are transforming some of anthropology's key concepts.
- Contents:
- Culture and cultural analysis as experimental systems
- Four cultural genealogies (or haplotype genealogical tests) for a recombinant anthropology of science and technology
- Emergent forms of (un)natural life
- Body marks (bestial/natural/divine): an essay on the social and biotechnical imaginaries, 1920/2008, and bodies to come
- Personhood and measuring the figure of old age : the geoid as transitional object
- Ask not what man is but what we may expect of him
- Conclusions and way ahead: cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, and anthropological futures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-377) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035752
- 9781283035750
- 1283035758
- 9780822390794
- 0822390795
- OCLC:
- 434869149
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