Deep play and social responsibility in Vienna --
Emergent forms of life: anthropologies of late or post modernities --
Filmic judgment and cultural critique: Iranian cinema in a teletechnological world --
Cultural critique with a hammer, a gouge, and a woodblock: art and medicine in the age of social re-traumatization --
Ethnographic critique and technoscientific narratives: the old mole, ethical plateaus, and the governance of emergent biosocial polities --
Autobiographical voices (1,2,3) and mosaic memory: ethnicity, religion, science --
Post-avant-garde tasks of Polish film: ethnographic Odklamane --
Worlding cyberspace: towards a critical ethnography in space, time, and theory --
Calling the futures: delay call forwarding --
In the science zone: the Yanomami and the fight for representation.

Considers an array of subjects - among them Iranian and Polish cinema, cyberspace, autobiographical and fictional narrative, and biogenetics - and, in the process, demonstrates a cultural anthropology for a highly networked world. This book lays the groundwork for a renewed and powerful twenty-first century anthropology.