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Technological choices : transformation in material cultures since the neolithic / edited by Pierre Lemonnier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Material culturesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: xvi, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415296447
  • 9780415296441
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book - 7-day loan Book - 7-day loan CYA Library Main Collection 303.483 TEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00000004272
Total holds: 0

"First published in paperback 2002"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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