Michael M J Fischer

Gebundenes Buch

Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges

Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry

Beschreibung

A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.

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 Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (published by Duke University Press) and Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. He is 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: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 835g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332855
• ISBN-10: 082233285X
• Artikelnr.: 21952059