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  title info:
    title: Transhumanism
    sub title: from ancestors to avatars
  name:
    name part: Huberman, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it provides an anthropological analysis of the transhumanist technological imagination. It explores the visions and values that animate transhumanist initiatives in the contemporary United states, and it explores the various ways transhumanists seek to use science and technology to usher in an enhanced posthuman future. Second, the book uses the study of transhumanism as a way to introduce a new generation of students to the discipline of cultural anthropology. In classic anthropological fashion, it argues that transhumanism can be better understood by approaching it from a comparative perspective. It shows how transhumanist efforts to transform the future of our species speak to a longstanding set of concerns within the discipline of cultural anthropology.
  table of contents: Introduction: Thinking through Transhumanism -- Intro.1. A back to the future approach to transhumanism -- Intro. 2. Technology, the imagination, and the future -- Intro. 3. The anthropology of transhumanism -- Intro. 4. Overview of Chapters 24 -- Intro. 5. A note on methods -- Chapter 1: Is transhumanism a revitalization movement? -- Chapter 2: Ancestors and avatars: Immortality transformed -- Chapter 3: Happily ever after: Transhumanism and the hedonistic imperative -- Chapter 4: The social skin, the anti social skin, and the pursuit of morphological freedom -- Chapter 5: Decoding the self -- Chapter 6: Rethinking kinship systems -- Chapter 7: From original affluence to posthuman abundance.
  note: Jenny Huberman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Transhumanism
  classification: B842.5 .H83 2021
  classification: 306
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    title info:
      title: New departures in anthropology
  identifier: 9781108835930
  identifier: 1108835937
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  identifier: 2020026138
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200609
    record change date: 20210422122929.0
    record identifier: in00004412343