Michael M J Fischer. creator Michael M J Fischer. text Philosophy.-Visual anthropology.-Intercultural communication.-Anthropology . xxu Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 monographic eng

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xii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 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. 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. / Michael M J Fischer. 301.01 FIS 9780822332381 Brijwasi Book Distributor H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi-110092 180503 20181203124807.0