Anthropological perspectives on technology /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2001. |
| Description: | xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Technology -- Social aspects. Anthropology. Archaeology. Industries, Primitive. Anthropology. Archaeology. Industries, Primitive. Technology -- Social aspects. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4466890 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Anne I. Woosley
- Preface / Michael Brian Schiffer
- Ch. 1. Toward an Anthropology of Technology / Michael Brian Schiffer
- Ch. 2. Beyond Art and Technology: The Anthropology of Skill / Tim Ingold
- Ch. 3. Thought and Production: Insights of the Practitioner / Charles M. Keller
- Ch. 4. Meaning in the Making: Agency and the Social Embodiment of Technology and Art / Marcia-Anne Dobres
- Ch. 5. Symbols Do Not Create Meanings - Activities Do: Or, Why Symbolic Anthropology Needs the Anthropology of Technology / Bryan Pfaffenberger
- Ch. 6. Ritual Technology in an Extranatural World / William H. Walker
- Ch. 7. Toward an Archaeology of Needs / Richard R. Wilk
- Ch. 8. The Design Process as a Critical Component of the Anthropology of Technology / W. David Kingery
- Ch. 9. Understanding Artifact Variability and Change: a Behavioral Framework / James M. Skibo and Michael Brian Schiffer
- Ch. 10. Artifice Constrained: What Determines Technological Choice? / Peter Bleed
- Ch. 11. Building Bridges: Practice-based Ethnographies of Contemporary Technology / Lucy A. Suchman
- Ch. 12. Coordination of Technological Practice and Representations at the Boundaries / Meredith Aronson, David Bell and Dan Vermeer
- Ch. 13. From Sail to Steam at Sea in the Late Nineteenth Century / Richard A. Gould
- Ch. 14. The Explanation of Long-Term Technological Change / Michael Brian Schiffer.
