Author: Paul Rabinow
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: morocco, fieldwork, reflections
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520251776
ISBN-13: 9780520251779

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-yea

Author: Paul Rabinow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: contemporary, anthropology, time, marking
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-29
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0691133638
ISBN-13: 9780691133638

In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining cutting-edge practices in the life sciences, security, new media and art practices, and other emergent phenomena. Taking up topics that include bioethics, anger and competition among molecular biologists, the lessons of the Drosophila genome, the nature of ethnographic observation in radically n

Author: Paul Rabinow
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: biotechnology, story, pcr, making
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1997-11-10
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226701476
ISBN-13: 9780226701479

Making PCR is the fascinating, behind-the-scenes account of the invention of one of the most significant biotech discoveries in our time—the polymerase chain reaction. Transforming the practice and potential of molecular biology, PCR extends scientists’ ability to identify and manipulate genetic materials and accurately reproduces millions of copies of a given segment in a short period of time. It makes abundant what was once scarce—the genetic material required for experimentation.Making PCR explores the culture of biotechnology as it emerged at Certus Corporation during the 1980s a

Authors:Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: reader, foucault
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1984-11-12
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0394713400
ISBN-13: 9780394713403

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault’s work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface t

Authors:Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow,
Publisher: New Press
Keywords: foucault, vol, works, essential, subjectivity, truth, ethics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1565844343
ISBN-13: 9781565844346

Michel Foucault is generally considered one of the most brilliant and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his writing has remained unpublished and/or unavailable in English. It is only recently that the French publisher Gallimard issued Dis et crits, the first complete collection of everything Foucault published outside of his monographs. Ethics, the first of three volumes in the collection, provides a lucid and accessible overview of Foucault’s work. Included in the first section of this volume are his groundbreaking analyses of penal institutions, psychiatry,

Authors:Paul Rabinow, William M. Sullivan,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: second, science, social, interpretive
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 1988-05-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520058364
ISBN-13: 9780520058361

This is a new edition of the well-received Interpretive Social Science (California, 1979), in which Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan predicted the increasing use of an interpretive approach in the social sciences, one that would replace a model based on the natural sciences. In this volume, Rabinow and Sullivan provide a synthetic discussion of the new scholarship in this area and offer twelve essays, eight of them new, embodying the very best work on interpretive approaches to the study of human society.

Authors:Paul Rabinow, George E.Marcus, Tobias Ree,
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: contemporary, anthropology, designs
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0822343703
ISBN-13: 9780822343707

In this compact volume, two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge and practice. James Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an afterword to the volume. Most of the conversations are focused on contemporary challenges to how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out. Rab