Anthropological futures
By: Michael M. J. Fischer.
Series: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices; Experimental futures
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780822344612; 9780822344766
Subjects: Anthropology; Ethnology; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture and cultural analysis as experimental systems; title: Four cultural genealogies (or haplotype genealogical tests) for a recombinant anthropology of science and technology; title: Emergent forms of (un)natural life; title: Body marks (bestial/natural/divine): an essay on the social and biotechnical imaginaries, 1920/2008, and bodies to come; title: Personhood and measuring the figure of old age : the geoid as transitional object; title: Ask not what man is but what we may expect of him; title: Conclusions and way ahead: cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, and anthropological futures.