Emergent forms of life: Anthropologies of Late or Postmodernities

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 28, Issue , 1999, Pages 455-478

  Fischer, Michael M J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Film and cyberspace; Reconstruction after social trauma; Science institutions; Social theory and ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038257069     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.28.1.455     Document Type: Article

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