Anthropological futures
Fischer, Michael M. J.
Anthropological futures Michael M. J. Fischer. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, ©2009. - xxiv, 399 p. ; 25 cm. - Experimental futures. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-377) and index.
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.
9780822344766
2008055244
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
GN27 / .F57 2009
301 / FIS-A
Anthropological futures Michael M. J. Fischer. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, ©2009. - xxiv, 399 p. ; 25 cm. - Experimental futures. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-377) and index.
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.
9780822344766
2008055244
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
GN27 / .F57 2009
301 / FIS-A