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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
This paper redefines prehistoric technology as a word of embodied, meaningful, social (and hence gendered) interaction, and focuses methodological attention on the intertwined social, material and symbolic arenas in which gendered technicians created and negotiated their material world and, thus, themselves.
Four features distinguish the anthropology of STS: (1) a detailed interest in the sciences and technologies themselves; (2) a global perspective, not just an account from Western Europe and North America; (3) multilocale or multisited ethnographic access to complex distributed processes such as the global chemical industry or global clinical ...
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.
The anthropology of technology (AoT) is a unique, diverse, and growing field of study that bears much in common with kindred developments in the sociology and history of technology: first, a growing refusal to view the role of technology in human societies as the irreversible and predetermined consequence of a given technology's putative "inner ...
The anthropology of science and technology is an expanding arena of inquiry and intervention that critically examines the cultural boundary that sets science and technology off from the lives and experiences of people.
2 wrz 2024 · The swift pace of technological progress has rekindled interest in anthropology, meaning that, in light of new technologies, we reflect on what it means to be human. Technological advancement gives rise to several questions in society: What sets humans apart from technology?
