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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.

#SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Anthropology --- Anthropological ethics --- Visual anthropology --- Intercultural communication --- Communication in anthropology --- Philosophy --- Anthropological ethics. --- Communication in anthropology. --- Intercultural communication. --- Visual anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Anthropologists --- Professional ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethnology --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Anthropological aspects --- Anthropology - Philosophy

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"In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, the reverberations of past traumas, and emergent new socialities. He outlines how artist-theorists including Entang Wiharso, Sally Smart, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and Kiran Kumar speculate on how the world is changing in ways that are attuned to cultivating, repairing, and rethinking the world in the Anthropocene. Their artistic vocabulary not only undoes Western art models and categories; it probes the unfolding future, addresses past trauma, and creates contested, vibrant, and flourishing spaces. Throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, and from Kumar's experimental dance to Kuning's rattan and beeswax ghost ships to Lim's videography of Singapore from the sea, Fischer argues that these artists' theoretical discourses should be privileged over those of the curators, historians, critics, and other gatekeepers who protect and claim art worlds for themselves"--

Anthropology and the arts. --- Arts and society --- Arts, Asian. --- Ethnocentrism in art. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social --- ART / Asian / General --- Asian arts --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Arts and anthropology --- Social aspects

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"At the Pivot of East and West is the companion volume to Michael M. J. Fischer's Probing Arts and Emergent Futures. In this book, Fischer continues his investigation into artistic practices with a focus on documentary films and novels, and introduces three analytics to do so: pivots, knots, and hinges. For Fischer, "pivots" signals geopolitical spaces, like art markets and commissions, as places to think with; "knots" speak to feminist and intercultural knots in women-authored novels; and "hinges" as a counterpoint to the notion of an event, a persistent slow change that only retrospectively seems dramatic and that remains unfinished. At the Pivot of East and West draws widely from global arts with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia"--

Anthropology and the arts --- Documentary mass media and the arts --- Arts and society --- Documentary films --- Southeast Asian literature --- Social change in motion pictures. --- Social change in literature. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature --- History and criticism. --- Arts and documentary mass media --- Arts --- Arts and anthropology --- Motion pictures --- Documentaries, Motion picture --- Documentary videos --- Factual films --- Motion picture documentaries --- Moving-pictures, Documentary --- Documentary mass media --- Nonfiction films --- Actualities (Motion pictures) --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Social aspects

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Anthropologie culturelle --- Antropologie [Culturele ] --- Cultural anthropology --- Culturele antropologie --- Ethnography --- Ethnologie --- Ethnology --- Etnologie --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Primitive Societies --- Primitive Society --- Societies, Primitive --- Ethnology. --- #SBIB:39A1 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- 39 --- Society, Primitive --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- 39 Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Antropologie: algemeen --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- 39 Cultural anthropology. Ethnography. Customs. Manners. Traditions. Way of life --- Cultural anthropology. Ethnography. Customs. Manners. Traditions. Way of life --- Anthropologie