Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights

by Josephine Smart and Alan Smart

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442636416
• ISBN13: 9781442636415
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"