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Author Fischer, Michael M. J., 1946-

Title Anthropological futures / Michael M.J. Fischer
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 399 pages) : illustrations
Series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Experimental futures.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary Rethinks the philosophical foundations for an anthropology of science and technology
Analysis Anthropology
Ethnology
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-377) and index
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Subject Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
anthropology.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Anthropology
Ethnology
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Anthropologie
Ethnologie
Culturele antropologie.
Cultuur.
Culturele studies.
Antropologi.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008055244
ISBN 9780822390794
0822390795