Posthumanism

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Cover of the book Posthumanism by Alan Smart, Josephine Smart, University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
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Author: Alan Smart, Josephine Smart ISBN: 9781442636446
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division Publication: April 26, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Alan Smart, Josephine Smart
ISBN: 9781442636446
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Publication: April 26, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were central to the lives that were narrated by anthropologists, but they extend the discussion to include contemporary issues like microbiomes, the Anthropocene, and nano-machines, which take holism beyond locally bounded spaces. They outline what a holism without boundaries could look like, and what anthropology could offer to the knowledge of more-than-human nature in the past, present, and future.

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Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were central to the lives that were narrated by anthropologists, but they extend the discussion to include contemporary issues like microbiomes, the Anthropocene, and nano-machines, which take holism beyond locally bounded spaces. They outline what a holism without boundaries could look like, and what anthropology could offer to the knowledge of more-than-human nature in the past, present, and future.

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