Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Prologue ix
4. 1. Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems 1
5. 2. Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology 50
6. 3. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life 114
7. 4. Body Marks (Bestial/Natural/Divine): An Essay on the Social and Biotechnological Imaginaries, 1920–2008, and Bodies to Come 159
8. 5. Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as Transitional Object 197
9. 6. Ask Not What Man Is But What We May Expect of Him 215
10. Conclusion and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Anthropological Futures 235
11. Epilogue: Postings from Anthropologies to Come 244
12. Notes 273
13. References 331
14. Index 379