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Human No More
. Ed(S): Whitehead, Neil L.; Wesch, Michael
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Description for Human No More
Paperback. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L.; Wesch, Michael. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 b/w photos, 11 line drawings & 1 table. BIC Classification: JHM; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of ... Read more
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9781607321897
SKU
V9781607321897
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About . Ed(S): Whitehead, Neil L.; Wesch, Michael
Neil L. Whitehead is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Michael Wesch is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University.
Reviews for Human No More
"Human No More raises issues vital to the study of online worlds and an emerging social order that sees so much of our time spent with our bodies in one world but our minds deeply planted in the dark soil of cyberspace. This is an essential text for anthropologists seeking new communities to explore and yearning for a renewed validation ... Read more