Rethinks the philosophical foundations for an anthropology of science and technology.

Prologue ix
1. Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems 1
2. Four Cultural Genealogies (or Haplotype Genealogical Tests) for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology 51
3. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life 114
4. Body Marks (Bestial/Natural/Divine): An Essay on the Social and Biotechnical Imaginaries, 1920-2008, and Bodies to Come 159
5. Personhood and Measuring the Figure of Old Age: The Geoid as Transitional Object 197
6. Ask Not What Man Is But What We May Expect of Him 215
Conclusions and Way Ahead: Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Anthropological Futures 235
Epilogue: Postings from Anthropologies to Come 244
Notes 273
References 331
Index 379