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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 sociology of scientific knowledge (11), the history and sociology of technol-
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.
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.
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 ...
23 lip 2021 · Blurring the boundary between life and technological nonlife has obscured the widening economic gap between the victims and the beneficiaries of accumulation. As ideologies are prone to do, the image of technology as artificial life mystifies social inequalities by representing them as natural.
hen it comes to the study of humans and their societies. 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 we.
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?
