Michael M. J. Fischer is professor of anthropology and of science and technology studies and former director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
12 Ebooks von Michael M. J. Fischer
Clinton Bailey & Shaul Bakhash: Shi’ism, Resistance, And Revolution
The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi’ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, …
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Clinton Bailey & Shaul Bakhash: Shi’ism, Resistance, And Revolution
The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi’ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, …
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€50.79
Sherry Turkle: Evocative Objects
Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford …
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€76.21
Michael M. J. Fischer & George E. Marcus: Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology’s past accomplishments, …
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€35.60
Michael M. J. Fischer: Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
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 …
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€41.74
Michael M. J. Fischer: Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges
Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his …
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€41.85
Christopher M. Kelty: Two Bits
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, …
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€39.24
Jeffrey S. Juris: Networking Futures
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples‘ Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate …
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€39.28
Michael M. J. Fischer: Anthropological Futures
In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and …
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€40.47
Karen-Sue Taussig: Ordinary Genomes
Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig’s analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how …
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€35.79
Nancy N. Chen & Aihwa Ong: Asian Biotech
Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified …
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€37.94
Michael M. J. Fischer: Anthropology in the Meantime
In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history …
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€41.82
