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Elements for an Anthropology of Technology
Pierre Lemonnier
Renowned anthropologist Pierre Lemonnier presents a refreshing new look at the anthropology of technology: one that will be of great interest to ethnologists and archaeologists alike.
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Contents
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List of tables
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List of figures
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Foreword, by John D. Speth
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Preface
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Chapter 1. Technology and Anthropology
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Introduction
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The What and Why of an Anthropology of Technological Systems
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Classical Anthropological Approaches to Technology
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Economic Anthropology and Technological Systems: A One-Sided Approach
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A Complementary Approach
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Chapter 2. From Field to Files: Description and Analysis of Technical Phenomena
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Operational Sequences: The Basic Data
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What and How to Classify
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Chapter 3. Arbitrariness in Technologies
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Social Representation of Technologies Among the Anga
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A Glance at Airplanes: Arbitrary Choices in So-Called High-Tech Society
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Chapter 4. Social Representation of Technologies
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Technological Traits as Signs
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Style and Function
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Style Without Function?
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Technology and Information
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Excesses of the Cambridge School
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Chapter 5. Conclusions: Toward a Study of Social Representations of Technology
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Back to the Anga Case
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Notes
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References Cited
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Published: 1992
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-0-915703-30-2 (paper)
- 978-1-949098-84-6 (ebook)