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Anthropological Perspectives on Technology (Paperback)
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Anthropological Perspectives on Technology (Paperback)
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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.
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