LEADER 04363nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910785595803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-05845-6 010 $a9786613058454 010 $a0-226-56814-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226568140 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066071 035 $a(EBL)648146 035 $a(OCoLC)695991333 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466793 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316879 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466793 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10466307 035 $a(PQKB)11316931 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648146 035 $a(DE-B1597)524607 035 $a(OCoLC)1135587775 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226568140 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL648146 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438619 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305845 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066071 100 $a20020814d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe age of immunology$b[electronic resource] $econceiving a future in an alienating world /$fA. David Napier 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (344 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-56812-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt.1. Anthropology -- pt. 2. Epistemology -- pt. 3. Autogeny. 330 $aIn this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology-that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self-has become a defining concept of the modern age. Tracing this immunological understanding of self and other through an incredibly diverse array of venues, from medical research to legal and military strategies and the electronic revolution, Napier shows how this defensive way of looking at the world not only destroys diversity but also eliminates the possibility of truly engaging difference, thereby impoverishing our culture and foreclosing tremendous opportunities for personal growth. To illustrate these destructive consequences, Napier likens the current craze for embracing diversity and the use of politically correct speech to a cultural potluck to which we each bring different dishes, but at which no one can eat unless they abide by the same rules. Similarly, loaning money to developing nations serves as a tool both to make the peoples in those nations more like us and to maintain them in the nonthreatening status of distant dependents. To break free of the resulting downward spiral of homogenization and self-focus, Napier suggests that we instead adopt a new defining concept based on embryology, in which development and self-growth take place through a process of incorporation and transformation. In this effort he suggests that we have much to learn from non-Western peoples, such as the Balinese, whose ritual practices require them to take on the considerable risk of injecting into their selves the potential dangers of otherness-and in so doing ultimately strengthen themselves as well as their society. The Age of Immunology, with its combination of philosophy, history, and cultural inquiry, will be seen as a manifesto for a new age and a new way of thinking about the world and our place in it. 606 $aEthnology$xPhilosophy 606 $aIntercultural communication 606 $aSelf 606 $aChange 606 $aImmunology 610 $aimmunology, recognition, elimination, self, medical research, legal strategies, military, electronics, diversity, difference, growth, politically correct speech, transformation, incorporation, self-growth, development, embryology, self-focus, homogenization, history, philosophy, change, intercultural communication, ethnology, nonfiction, dependency, reciprocity. 615 0$aEthnology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aIntercultural communication. 615 0$aSelf. 615 0$aChange. 615 0$aImmunology. 676 $a305.8/001 700 $aNapier$b A. David$0445688 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785595803321 996 $aThe age of immunology$93690532 997 $aUNINA