Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2003
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Considers an array of subjects - among them Iranian and Polish cinema, cyberspace, autobiographical and fictional narrative, and biogenetics - and, in the process, demonstrates a cultural anthropology for a highly networked world. This book lays the groundwork for a renewed and powerful twenty-first century anthropology. Num Pages: 496 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 674. . 2003. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
- Author
- Fischer, Michael M. J.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822332388
- ISBN 13
- 9780822332381
A vigorous advocate of the anthropological voice and method, Fischer emphasizes the ethical dimension of cultural anthropology. Ethnography, he suggests, is uniquely situated to gather and convey observations fundamental to the creation of new social institutions for an evolving civil society. In Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice Fischer considers a dazzling array of subjects—among them Iranian and Polish cinema, cyberspace, autobiographical and fictional narrative, and genomic biotechnologies—and, in the process, demonstrates a cultural anthropology for a highly networked world. He lays the groundwork for a renewed and powerful twenty-first-century anthropology characterized by a continued insistence on empirical fieldwork, engagements with other disciplines, and dialogue with interlocutors around the globe.
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Michael M. J. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution and coauthor of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition and Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences.
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