Fischer / Dumit Anthropological Futures

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9079-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

A leading anthropological theorist investigates how emerging knowledge formations in molecular biology, environmental studies, computer science, and bioengineering are transforming some of anthropologys key concepts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Michael M. J.

Dumit, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue ix

1. Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems 1

2. Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology 51

3. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life 114

4. Body Marks (Bestial/Natural/Divine): An Essay on the Social and Biotechnical Imaginaries, 1920-2008, and Bodies to Come 159

5. Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as Transitional Object 197

6. Ask Not What Man Is But What We May Expect of Him 215

Conclusions and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Anthropological Futures 235

Epilogue: Postings from Anthropologies to Come 244

Notes 273

References 331

Index 379

Über Autor(innen)

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His most recent books include Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (winner of the American Ethnological Society’s Senior Book Prize), both also published by Duke University Press.