Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2019, no. 15

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: THE CASE OF THE HUMAN BODY AND TECHNICS (AN AFTERWORD TO THE DISCUSSION)

Sergei Sokolovskiy
N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
32a Leninskiy Av., Moscow, Russia
SokolovskiSerg()gmail.com

Abstract: This paper summarises the discussion on anthropological approaches to the study of the interface of human body and technologies. Employing the concept of ‘hypocognition’ suggested by Robert Levy, the author describes the search for the conceptual tools necessary to create interdisciplinary dialogue in this new research field. In addition to a brief overview of this search and the resulting discussion, the paper argues with the traditional approach to the human body and technologies as separate phenomena. As new technologies interact with the human body in new and intricate ways, and influence human beings, societies, and cultures across the world, their study must become part and parcel of anthropology, which has so far focused on tradition and paid less attention to innovations.

Keywords: technology research in anthropology, body studies, hypocognition, interdisciplinary dialogue.

To cite: Sokolovskiy S., ‘Anthropology of the Living and the Dead: The Case of the Human Body and Technics (An Afterword to the Discussion)’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2019, no. 15, pp. 83–94.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8927-2019-15-15-83-94

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/eng015/sokolovskiy_1.pdf