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