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Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (Paperback)
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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.
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