Technological choices :  transformation in material cultures since the neolithic / 
edited by Pierre Lemonnier. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2002. 
 - xvi, 420 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Material cultures 
<br/><br/> "First published in paperback 2002"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>North wind, south wind : Neolithic technical choices in the Jura Mountains, 3700-2400 BC / Pierre Petrequin -- The watch and the waterclock : technological choices/social choices / Geneviÿe Bédoucha -- The reindeerman's lasso / Tim Ingold -- Pigs as ordinary wealth : technical logic, exchange and leadership in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- Pottery techniques in India : technical variants and social choice / Marie-Claude Mahias -- Of mills and waterwheels : the hidden parameters of technological choice / Robert Cresswell -- Technical innovation and cultural resistance : the social weight of plowing in the vineyards of Les Corbiéres (Languedoc) / Georges Guille-Escuret -- The hunter and his gun in Haute-Provence / Nicolas C. Govoroff -- Giving the potter a choice : conceptual aspects of poetry techniques / Sander van der Leeuw -- A gazogene in Costa Rica : an experiment in techno-sociology / Madeleine Akrich -- The factory as artefact / Bryan Pfaffenberger -- Ethnography of a "high-tech" case : about Aramis / Bruno Latour -- Dominant representations and technical choices : a method of analysis with examples from aeronautics / Jean-Franðcois Quilici-Pacaud. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415296447 9780415296441 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technology--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.483