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Research in Science and Technology Studies - Material Culture (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,124
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Research in Science and Technology Studies - Material Culture (Hardcover): Shirley Gorenstein

Research in Science and Technology Studies - Material Culture (Hardcover)

Shirley Gorenstein

Series: Knowledge and Society

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This volume presents discussions of material culture and society. It offers a perspective that recognizes technology as material culture, that is, as manufactured things spawned by a community amd as characteristic of it as its language, behaviour and oral and written knowledge. The chapter "Progress in Separate Spheres" addresses the relationship between the theme of progress and material culture through advertising. Another chapter analyzes the computer and points out that the physical attributes of the machine make it an enigma which cannot be revealed by disassembling its working parts, but must be discovered through the mental comprehension of its processes. Two papers discuss the introduction of technologies to communities from different perspectives. The volume ends with a paper on human automata, an example of an object in which technology and humanity confront each other.

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Imprint: JAI Press Inc.
Country of origin: United States
Series: Knowledge and Society
Release date: June 1996
First published: 1996
Authors: Shirley Gorenstein
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 978-1-55938-000-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN: 1-55938-000-4
Barcode: 9781559380003

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