Beschreibung:
Rethinks the philosophical foundations for an anthropology of science and technology.
Prologue ix1. Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems 12. Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology 513. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life 1144. Body Marks (Bestial/Natural/Divine): An Essay on the Social and Biotechnical Imaginaries, 1920-2008, and Bodies to Come 1595. Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as Transitional Object 1976. Ask Not What Man Is But What We May Expect of Him 215Conclusions and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Anthropological Futures 235Epilogue: Postings from Anthropologies to Come 244Notes 273References 331Index 379