Technology and Social Agency

Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology

Marcia-Anne Dobres (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2000
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-57718-123-1 (ISBN)

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* Examines technology from a social, cultural and phenomenological perspective. * Presents a new conceptual and methodological framework for studying technology. .

Marcia-Anne Dobres received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently teaching at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on Palaeolithic and contemporary hunter-gatherers, technology, social agency, and gender, as well as prehistoric art and symbolism. She has ongoing research projects in France and South Africa. She is senior editor of The Social Dynamics of Technology: Practice, Politics, and World Views (1999) and Agency in Archaeology (ed. with Robb, 2000).

List of Figures. Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Of Black Boxes and Matters Material: The State of Things.

2. Deconstructing the Black Box: Some Philosophical and Historical Reflections on the Logos Tekhne.

3. Prying Open the Black Box: Philosophical Insights on Technology and Being.

4. A Synoptic Approach to Technology: Conceptual Contours of a Practice Framework.

5. Social Agency and Practice: The Heart and Soul of Technology.

6. Engendering the Chaine Operatoire: Methodological Issues.

7. A Future for Technology's Pasts.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2000
Reihe/Serie	Social Archaeology
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-57718-123-9 / 1577181239
ISBN-13	978-1-57718-123-1 / 9781577181231
Zustand	Neuware