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A comparative analysis of existing anthropological research on science, technology, and social movements provides the basis for limited generalizations regarding the types and circumstances of charged cultural repertoires that both social movements
- Social Anthropology of Technology
In this chapter, I argue that social anthropology has...
- Social Anthropology of Technology
In this chapter, I argue that social anthropology has already discovered a great deal about human technological activity-especially when anthropologi- cal findings are interpreted in the context of recent, stunning advances in the
Technology is not only the material means of making artifacts, but a dynamic cultural phenomenon embedded in social action, worldviews, and social reproduction. This paper explores the theoretical …
From its very origins as a discipline, anthropology has recorded and researched human-technology interfaces in efforts to account for and understand forms of social organisation and practice as well as systems of belief and meaning throughout the world.
9 paź 2003 · Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into ...
24 mar 2022 · What materials are then used, and why? How do the makers—or users—develop, use, and make sense of a technology and its material qualities? What kind of (global) social life is entangled in its production and consumption? And what role do the technologies have in constituting social identities?
16 cze 2005 · Contrary to theories that depict the individual's relation to society as one of victimization, endless malleability, or just a square peg in a round hole, he proposes that the individual human being is designed by nature to be part of society.
