Author: Michael M. J.Fischer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: voice, anthropological, life, forms, emergent
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2004-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0822332388
ISBN-13: 9780822332381

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

Author: Michael Fischer
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: skepticism, literary, cavell, stanley
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1989-04-26
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0226251403
ISBN-13: 9780226251400

Stanley Cavell’s work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and others. In this first book-length study of Cavell’s writings, Michael Fischer examines Cavell’s relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley

Author: Michael M. J. Fischer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: revolution, dispute, religious, iran
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0299184749
ISBN-13: 9780299184742

Unlike much of the instant analysis that appeared at the time of the Iranian revolution, Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution is based upon extensive fieldwork carried out in Iran. Michael M. J. Fischer draws upon his rich experience with the mullahs and their students in the holy city of Qum, composing a picture of Iranian society from the inside—the lives of ordinary people, the way that each class interprets Islam, and the role of religion and religious education in the culture. Fischer’s book, with its new introduction updating arguments for the post-Revolutionary period, brings

Author: Michael M. J. Fischer
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: futures, experimental, anthropological
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0822344769
ISBN-13: 9780822344766

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 shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field’s broad analytical capacity and its attentiveness to emergent cultural systems. Fischer is particularly concerned with cultural anthropology’s interactions with science studi

Author: Michael M. J. Fischer
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: futures, experimental, anthropological
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2009-06-05
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0822344610
ISBN-13: 9780822344612

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 shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field’s broad analytical capacity and its attentiveness to emergent cultural systems.Fischer is particularly concerned with cultural anthropology’s interactions with science studie

Author: Michael Fischer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: research, methods, asa, anthropologists, computing, social, applications
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1994-07-12
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0415018196
ISBN-13: 9780415018197

As increasing numbers of social anthropologists use a computer for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows, Computer Applications in Social Anthropology covers research activities shared by all social anthropologists and introduces new methods for organizing and interpreting data. Lucidly written, and sympathetic to the particular needs of social anthropologists, it will be of immense value to researchers and professionals in anthropology, development studies and sociology

Author: Michael Fischer
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: skepticism, literary, cavell, stanley
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1989-04-24
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226251411
ISBN-13: 9780226251417

Stanley Cavell’s work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and others. In this first book-length study of Cavell’s writings, Michael Fischer examines Cavell’s relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley