Michael M J Fischer

Broschiertes Buch

Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice

Beschreibung

"True to its title, " Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice" is about worlds coming into being in technoculture. Attentive especially to the new biologies and biotechnologies, information technologies, and ecological and environmental matters, Michael M. J. Fischer explores what he calls 'ethical plateaus' or domains of ethical challenge. This wonderful book neither condemns nor glorifies emergent worlds; instead it gives us deep and intelligent analysis and reflection from a distinctive ethnographic point of view. 'Culture' comes alive here. As Fischer reminds us vividly, culture is not a variable. Culture is about relationships, about relating as a verb. Culture is a passage and a topos, and Fischer is a masterful guide."--Donna Haraway

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 477
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332381
• ISBN-10: 0822332388
• Artikelnr.: 21257371