Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Sarah Williams "Cyborg Anthropology" In The Cyborg Handbook; edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor; New York: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 341-6) This essay on 'cyborg anthropology' articulates an enigmatic field for the study of man: the post-human. While acknowledging that "cyborg anthropology poses a serious challenge to the human-centered foundations of anthropological discourse," the oxymoronic stature of the term remains rather problematic. In many ways, this new discipline appears synonymous with Science and Technology Studies, as the authors suggest: "cyborg anthropology is interested in the construction of science and technology as cultural phenomena." While the intention may have been the displacement of humanism from the 'study of man,' these anthropologists seem dangerously close to dissolving their own discipline. Perhaps the most appropriate statement in this essay recognizes just that: "cyborg anthropology is a dangerous activity." L.E. Fazen