Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice

by Michael M.J. Fischer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822332388
• ISBN13: 9780822332381
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"