Emergent forms of life and the anthropological voice
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Emergent forms of life and the anthropological voice
Duke University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-461) and index
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, pathbreaking scholar Michael M. J. Fischer moves the discussion to a consideration of the groundwork laid in the 1990s for engagements with the fast-changing worlds of technoscience, telemedia saturation, and the reconstruction of societies after massive trauma. Fischer argues that new methodologies and conceptual tools are necessitated by the fact that cultures of every kind are becoming more complex and differentiated at the same time that globalization and modernization are bringing them into exponentially increased interaction. Anthropology, Fischer explains, now operates in a series of third spaces well beyond the nineteenth- and twentieth-century dualisms of us/them, primitive/civilized, East/West, or North/South. He contends that more useful paradigms-such as informatics, multidimensional scaling, autoimmunity, and visual literacy beyond the frame-derive from the contemporary sciences and media technologies.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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Third Spaces of Anthropology 1
Emergent Forms of Life
1 Deep Play and Social Responsibility in Vienna 29
2 Emergent Forms of Life: Anthropologies of Late or Post Modernities 37
Critique within Technoscientific Worlds
3 Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: Iranian Cinema in a Teletechnological World 61
4 Cultural Critique with a Hammer, Gouge, and Woodblock: Art and Medicine in the Age of Social Retraumatization 90
5 Ethnographic Critique and Technoscientific Narratives: The Old Mole, Ethical Plateaus, and the Governance of Emergent Biosocial Polities 145
Subjectivities in an Age of Global Connectivity
6 Autobiograhpical Voices (1,2,3) and Mosaic Memory: Ethnicity, Religion, Science (An Inquiry into the Nature of Autobiographical Genres and Their Uses in Extending Social Theory) 179
7 Post-Avant-Garde Tasks of Polish Film: Ethnographic Odklamane 225
New Pedagogies and Ethics
8 Worlding Cyperspace: Toward a Critical Ethnography in Space, Time, and Theory 261
9 Calling the Future(s): Delay Call Forwarding 305
I. Las Meninas and Robotic-Virtual Surgical systems: the Visual Thread/Fiber-Optic Carrier 309
II. Modules for a Science, Technology, and Society Curriculum: STS@theTurn_[ ]ooo.mit.edu 333
10 In the Science Zone: The Yanomami and the Fight for Representation 370
Epilogue: On Distinguishing Good and Evil in Emergent Forms of Life (Woodblock Print to Newspaper Illustration) 393
Notes 397
Bibliography 427
Index 463
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