A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Note on References 12
- INTRODUCTION: Spirit Quest 16
- 1 Cold War Explorations 20
- Anthropologica Torontonensis 31
- A Little Magazine 40
- Culture and Communication 44
- 2 Media Anthropology 46
- The Cybernetic Challenge 52
- Technologies of “Man” 57
- Academic Twilight 70
- 3 The Wanderjahre 8
- Understanding McLuhan 82
- Explorations Redux 86
- The “Cold War Avant-Garde” 94
- 4 The Fordham Affair 99
- Wedded to the Mystery 104
- Declassification and Reclassification 107
- Not Since Babel 113
- 5 An Unconventional Anthropologist 121
- Angelization 131
- Misanthropology 137
- The Limits to Media 144
- Arctic Realities 147
- 6 The Menil Connection 157
- Museological Controversies 165
- Connecting Patterns 170
- Collecting Butterflies 180
- Writing Anthropology 183
- 7 Northern Preoccupations 185
- Witnessing the Arctic 189
- The Burial of the Dead 195
- Polar Polemics 198
- 8 Collecting Memories 204
- Dropping the Penny 207
- Chiefly Greed 210
- Anthropology Upside Down 218
- CONCLUSION: The Metaphysics of Me 231
- Notes 246
- Bibliography 284
- Index 304
