Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice

Fischer Michael M. J. Fischer

Description

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.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Cultural studies
• Biological anthropology
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 10 décembre 2003
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822384953
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

                     

                     

        .  .       

Eméé Fômŝ ô Lîé à

é Aôpôlôîçàl Vôîçé

Dûké Uîéŝîy Péŝŝ

Dûàm à Lôô 

©  Dûké Uîéŝîy Péŝŝ All îŝ éŝéé Pîé î é Uîé Sàéŝ ô Améîçà ô àçî-éé pàpé  Déŝîé y Rééççà GîmÉéz Typéŝé î Aôé Mîîô y Tŝé ïômàîô Syŝémŝ, ïç. Lîày ô Côéŝŝ Cààlôî- î-Pûlîçàîô Dàà àppéà ô é làŝ pîé pàé ô îŝ ôôk.

       ,

wôŝé àmàzî îélléç, wîllpôwé,

à àçé î éàç éw ŝàé ô lîé

çôîûé ô îŝpîé, àŝ ôéŝ é lôé,

           ,

wôŝé çômpàîôŝîp î ûîlî é

çômmûîîéŝ ô ŝûéŝ à çôlléàûéŝ

ôm wîç éŝé éŝŝàyŝ ôw, à wôŝé

àûà lôé, ééîzé my lîé.

       

Açkôwléméŝ, îx

Pôlôûé: Té Tî Spàçéŝ ô Aôpôlôy, 

Eméé Fômŝ ô Lîé 1Déép Plày à Sôçîàl Réŝpôŝîîlîy î Vîéà,  2Eméé Fômŝ ô Lîé: Aôpôlôîéŝ ô Làé ô Pôŝ Môéîîéŝ, 

Cîîqûé wîî Téçôŝçîéîfiç Wôlŝ 3Fîlmîç Jûmé à Cûlûàl Cîîqûé: ïàîà Cîémà î à Télééçôlôîçàl Wôl,  4Cûlûàl Cîîqûé wî à Hàmmé, Gôûé, à Wôôlôçk: A à Méîçîé î é Aé ô Sôçîàl Réàûmàîzàîô,  5Eôàpîç Cîîqûé à Téçôŝçîéîfiç Nààîéŝ: Té Ol Môlé, Eîçàl Plàéàûŝ, à é Gôéàçé ô Eméé Bîôŝôçîàl Pôlîîéŝ, 

Sûjéçîîîéŝ î à Aé ô Glôàl Côéçîîy 6Aûôîôàpîçàl Vôîçéŝ (, , ) à Môŝàîç Mémôy: Eîçîy, Rélîîô, Sçîéçé (A ïqûîy îô é Nàûé ô Aûôîôàpîçàl Gééŝ à Téî Uŝéŝ î Exéî Sôçîàl Téôy),  7Pôŝ-Aà-Gàé Tàŝkŝ ô Pôlîŝ Fîlm: EôàpîçOkłàmàé, 

Néw Péàôîéŝ à Eîçŝ 8Wôlî Cyéŝpàçé: Tôwà à Cîîçàl Eôàpy î Spàçé, Tîmé, à Téôy,  9Càllî é Fûûé(ŝ): Délày Càll Fôwàî, 

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ï.àŝ Méîàŝà Rôôîç-Vîûàl Sûîçàl Syŝémŝ: Té Vîŝûàl Téà/ Fîé-Opîç Càîé, 

ïï. Môûléŝ ô à Sçîéçé, Téçôlôy, à Sôçîéy Cûîçûlûm: STS@é- Tû [].mî.éû, 

ï é Sçîéçé Zôé: Té Yàômàmî à é Fî ô Répéŝéàîô, 

Epîlôûé: O Dîŝîûîŝî Gôô à Eîl î Eméé Fômŝ ô Lîé (Wôôlôçk Pî ô Néwŝpàpé ïllûŝàîô), 

Nôéŝ,  Bîlîôàpy,  ïéx, 

            

I have been fortunate as a teacher in having students again in the s and swho have helped enrich and expand the intellectual, experien- tial, cross-cultural, generational, and cross-disciplinary delights of ethnog- raphy and anthropology. I thank in particular Mehdi Abedi, Lenore Ander- son, Babak Ashrafi, Tajiana Bajuk, Jamila Bargach, Pat Bentley, Ryan Bishop, Roberta Brawer, Brenda Bright, Candis Callison, Melissa Cefkin, Anita Chan, Mousumi Roy Chowdhury, Greg Clancey, Mitra Emad, Linda End- ersby, Kim Fortun, Laurel Georges, Slava Gerovitch, Yaakov Garb, Bruce Grant, Diane Greco, Stella Grigorian, Verle Harrop, Wenke He, Laura Helper, Meg Hiesinger, Rebecca Herzig, Chris Kelty, Wen-Hua Kuo, Hannah Landecker, David Mindell, Mayanna Lahsen, Judy Lentz, Mazyar Lotfalian, R R o o b b M M a a r r t  e e l o o , , T T e e d d M M e e d d c c a a  l F f e e , , J J e e n n n n î i F f e e r r M M n n o o o o k k î i n n , , E E s s r r a a O O z z H u a n n , , J J e e  f P P e e t  r r y y , , B B e e n n P P î i n nn n e e y y, ,  C C H h r r î is s P Po ou un n d d , , D Da av v î i d d  P P r ra a t e e r r , ,  A A s s w w î i n n  P P u u n n a a  t H ha a m m b b e e k k a a r r, ,  E E r r î i c c  S S î i e e v v e e r rs s , , Naghmeh Sohrabi, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Aslihan Sanal, Heinrich Schwarz, Pam Smart, Tulasi Srinivas, David Syring, Beth Tudor, Santiago Villavecces, Priscilla Weeks, Livia Wick, and Christopher York for having made the past few years so intellectually and personally rewarding. Many others in the graduate programs at Rice andhave contributed to this community of feeling—postdoctoral fellows in theProgram Rich Doyle, Mike Fortun, and Adriana Petryna, visting scholars Constance Perin, Ricardo Ventura Santos, and Patricia Seed, visitingstudents Virginia Eubanks and Patrick Feng, visitingZurich student Regula Burri, visiting Humboldt Uni- versity student Axel Roch, the exchange students with Sweden, colleagues and graduate students in the Comparative Media Studies Program, and the colleagues and Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellows of the Center for Cultural Studies at Rice—as did all the many contributors to the investigative and editorial experiments of theLate Editionsproject piloted by George Marcus, the members of the network of the Center for Transcultural Studies piloted by Ben Lee and Dilip Gaonkar and the separate but allied journalPublic