Open AccessON METAPHOR: Reciprocity and Immunity
Author(s) -
FISCHER MICHAEL M. J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01132.x
Subject(s) - metaphor , faith , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , citation , sociology , philosophy , classics , religious studies , theology , art , library science , anthropology , computer science
My reading of David Napier's article foregrounds or highlights (1) a key scientific “discovery” or observation; (2) the history of shifting high level metaphors as key new biological mechanisms are apprehended; (3) three key contemporary problems in immunological biology identified by Napier (transplantation, tumor immunology, autoimmune diseases); and (4) the ways in which popular culture takes up new scientific terminologies as folk “philosophemes” or cultural components for apprehending sociocultural change