Anthropological Futures

Michael M. J. Fischer

Published by Duke University Press 2009

Anthropological Futures

Michael M. J. Fischer
Edited by: Joseph Dumit

In the series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390794

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“This intellectually wide-ranging and spirited book poses the question of what kind of anthropology might be required to deal most effectively with emergent human experience. . . . Fischer has written a book for our times that
will provoke much thinking.” - Melinda Hinkson, Anthropological Forum

“Anthropological Futures is both a review of core questions and scholarship and a risk-taking, future-oriented mapping of the knots of culture, nature, person, body, and science. It is a wide-ranging conversation conducted with serious erudition and originality, replete with ideas for work to come.”—Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

“As always, Michael M. J. Fischer provides deeply grounded yet very experimental and future-oriented ideas about cultural anthropology, and cultural analysis more generally. This book is a fabulous resource.”—Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

“This intellectually wide-ranging and spirited book poses the question of what kind of anthropology might be required to deal most effectively with emergent human experience. . . . Fischer has written a book for our times that will provoke much thinking.”

-- Melinda Hinkson Anthropological Forum

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
4. Body Marks (Bestial/Natural/Divine): An Essay on the Social and Biotechnological Imaginaries, 1920–2008, and Bodies to Come Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
5. Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as Transitional Object Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
6. Ask Not What Man Is But What We May Expect of Him Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Conclusion and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Anthropological Futures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Epilogue: Postings from Anthropologies to Come Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 424
Illustrations
- Other: 38 illustrations

eBook

Published: June 26, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390794