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This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning
about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the
laboratory, offering a frontline perspective on how new insights
come to life. An exercise in the anthropology of knowledge, this
story follows a community of biologists in Western Norway in their
quest to build a novel experimental system for research on
Lepeoptheirus salmonis, a parasite that has become a major pest in
salmon aquaculture. The book offers a window on the making of this
material culture of science, and how biological phenomena and their
representations are skillfully transformed and made meaningful
within a rich cognitive ecology. Conventional accounts of
experiments see their purpose as mainly auxiliary, as handmaidens
to theory. By looking closely at experimental activities and their
materiality, this book shows how experimentation contributes to
knowledge production through a broader set of epistemic actions.In
drawing on a combination of approaches from anthropology and
cognitive science, it offers a unique contribution to the fields of
cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, science and
technology studies and the philosophy of science.
This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning
about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the
laboratory, offering a frontline perspective on how new insights
come to life. An exercise in the anthropology of knowledge, this
story follows a community of biologists in Western Norway in their
quest to build a novel experimental system for research on
Lepeoptheirus salmonis, a parasite that has become a major pest in
salmon aquaculture. The book offers a window on the making of this
material culture of science, and how biological phenomena and their
representations are skillfully transformed and made meaningful
within a rich cognitive ecology. Conventional accounts of
experiments see their purpose as mainly auxiliary, as handmaidens
to theory. By looking closely at experimental activities and their
materiality, this book shows how experimentation contributes to
knowledge production through a broader set of epistemic actions.In
drawing on a combination of approaches from anthropology and
cognitive science, it offers a unique contribution to the fields of
cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, science and
technology studies and the philosophy of science.
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