Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights

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.

Author: Alan Smart,Josephine Smart
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 04/26/2017
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781442636415

About the Author
Alan Smart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.
Josephine Smart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.

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