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Examining the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists, 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.

Examining the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists, 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.

Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking, literature, and innovative dance from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics.

Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking, literature, and innovative dance from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics.

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of eight books, including Anthropological Futures, Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges, and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, all also published by Duke University Press.

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of eight books, including Anthropological Futures, Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges, and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, all also published by Duke University Press.

A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.

A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.

Essays by a leading anthropologist on current dilemmas of theory, science, ethics, and cinema.

Essays by a leading anthropologist on current dilemmas of theory, science, ethics, and cinema.

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 ...

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 int

Rethinks the philosophical foundations for an anthropology of science and technology.