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Anthropological Perspectives on Technology
Taschenbuch von Michael Brian Schiffer
Sprache: Englisch

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These fourteen original essays accept a dual premise: technology pervades and is embedded in all human activities. By taking that approach, studies of technology address two questions central in anthropological and archaeological research today-accounting for variability and change. These diverse yet interrelated chapters show that to understand human lives, researchers must deal with the material world that all peoples create and inhabit. Therefore an anthropology of technology is not a separate, discrete inquiry; instead, it is a way to connect how people make and use things to any activity studied, ranging from religion, to enculturation, to communication, to art.

Each contributor discusses theories and methods and also offers a substantial case study. These detailed inquiries span human societies from the Paleolithic to the computer age. By moving beyond the usual approach of examining ancient technologies, particularly chipped stone and low-fired ceramics, this volume probes for the construction of meaning in the material world across millennia. The authors of these essays find technology to be an inclusive and flexible topic that merges with studies of everything else in human activity.
These fourteen original essays accept a dual premise: technology pervades and is embedded in all human activities. By taking that approach, studies of technology address two questions central in anthropological and archaeological research today-accounting for variability and change. These diverse yet interrelated chapters show that to understand human lives, researchers must deal with the material world that all peoples create and inhabit. Therefore an anthropology of technology is not a separate, discrete inquiry; instead, it is a way to connect how people make and use things to any activity studied, ranging from religion, to enculturation, to communication, to art.

Each contributor discusses theories and methods and also offers a substantial case study. These detailed inquiries span human societies from the Paleolithic to the computer age. By moving beyond the usual approach of examining ancient technologies, particularly chipped stone and low-fired ceramics, this volume probes for the construction of meaning in the material world across millennia. The authors of these essays find technology to be an inclusive and flexible topic that merges with studies of everything else in human activity.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 258
ISBN-13: 9780826350398
ISBN-10: 0826350399
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Schiffer, Michael Brian
Hersteller: University of New Mexico Press
Maße: 280 x 216 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Brian Schiffer
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2011
Gewicht: 0,658 kg
preigu-id: 106850940
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 258
ISBN-13: 9780826350398
ISBN-10: 0826350399
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Schiffer, Michael Brian
Hersteller: University of New Mexico Press
Maße: 280 x 216 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Brian Schiffer
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2011
Gewicht: 0,658 kg
preigu-id: 106850940
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