An Anthropologist on Mars

YKY, which publishes all the works of Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology and psychology who was born in 1933, now presents An Anthropologist on Mars to Turkish readers.
In An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks narrates seven astonishing different biographies that reveal how the criteria that determine the distinction between normal and pathological vary when a person's life is put under the spotlight.
Oliver Sacks, who is closely interested in the person's abnormal behavior gaining a personal vitality and taking over his existence, approaches the cases not as a stereotypical neurologist, but as a neuro-anthropologist, but as a curious doctor who focuses on the functions of the brain, the functioning of the mind and cognitive processes, and goes beyond the circle of normal. He ponders the real story of these thrown people: He shares his scientific conclusions, the points where science is blocked, and his observations with the reader in the warmth of a science diary, not in the form of a "sick report" or with the coldness of an academic language, but with the seriousness of a scientist, sometimes putting himself in the shoes of the patient. An Anthropologist on Mars is a life user manual that will make many novelists wonder, that literary people will read with envy, and whose reality does not change from fiction.
The reader is familiar with Oliver Sacks not only from his books, but also from the movies (through the eyes of the audience), due to the close attention of cinema to his writings and the real life stories he narrates in the focus of the cases he examines. Sacks' book Awakenings was adapted into a movie with the same name (1990), and the film deeply impressed the audience with its script, especially the successful acting of Robert de Niro and Robin Williams. Among the stories in An Anthropologist on Mars, "Seeing and Not Seeing" (At First Sight, 1999) and "The Last Hippie" (The Music Never Stopped, 2011) were also made into films. Additionally, Temple Grandin (2010), directed by Mick Jackson, which tells the life of Temple Grandin, mentioned in the essay "An Anthropologist on Mars", was also adapted to the big screen.



Number of Pages: 324

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

First Printing Year: 2011

Language Turkish