Digital Anthropology

by Heather Horst

Book Overview

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become.

Through a range of case studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857852906
• ISBN13: 9780857852908
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"