Technological choices :
Technological choices : transformation in material cultures since the Neolithic /
edited by Pierre Lemonnier.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
- xvi, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Material cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. North Wind, South Wind : Neolithic technical choices in the Jura Mountains, 3700-2400 BC / Pierre Pétrequin -- 2. The Watch and the Waterclock : Technological choices - social choices / Geneviéve Bédoucha -- 3. The Reindeerman's Lasso /Tim Ingols -- 4. Pigs as Ordinary Wealth : Technical Logic, exchange and leadership in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- 5. Pottery Techniques in India : Technical variants and social choice / Marie-Claude Mahias -- 6. Of Mills and Waterwheels : The hidden parameters of technological choice / Robert Cresswell -- 7. Technical Innovation and Cultural Resistance : the social weight of plowing in the vineyards of Les Corbiéres (Languedoc) / Georges Guille-Escuret -- 8. The Hunter and his gun in Haute-Provence / Nicolas C. Govoroff -- 9. Giving the Potter a choice : Conceptual aspects of pottery techniques / Sander van der Leeuw -- 10. A Gazogene in Costa Rica : An experiment in techno-sociolog / Madeleine Akrich -- 11. The Factory as Artefact / Bryan Pfaffenberger -- 12. Ethnography of a " High-Tech" Case : About Aramis / Bruno Latour -- 13. Dominant Reppresentations and Technical Choices : A method of analysis with examples from aeronautics / Jean-François Quilici-Pacaud.
9780415296441
Technology--History.
Material culture --History.
Material culture --Prehistory.
Technology--Social aspects.
T14.5 / T43 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. North Wind, South Wind : Neolithic technical choices in the Jura Mountains, 3700-2400 BC / Pierre Pétrequin -- 2. The Watch and the Waterclock : Technological choices - social choices / Geneviéve Bédoucha -- 3. The Reindeerman's Lasso /Tim Ingols -- 4. Pigs as Ordinary Wealth : Technical Logic, exchange and leadership in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- 5. Pottery Techniques in India : Technical variants and social choice / Marie-Claude Mahias -- 6. Of Mills and Waterwheels : The hidden parameters of technological choice / Robert Cresswell -- 7. Technical Innovation and Cultural Resistance : the social weight of plowing in the vineyards of Les Corbiéres (Languedoc) / Georges Guille-Escuret -- 8. The Hunter and his gun in Haute-Provence / Nicolas C. Govoroff -- 9. Giving the Potter a choice : Conceptual aspects of pottery techniques / Sander van der Leeuw -- 10. A Gazogene in Costa Rica : An experiment in techno-sociolog / Madeleine Akrich -- 11. The Factory as Artefact / Bryan Pfaffenberger -- 12. Ethnography of a " High-Tech" Case : About Aramis / Bruno Latour -- 13. Dominant Reppresentations and Technical Choices : A method of analysis with examples from aeronautics / Jean-François Quilici-Pacaud.
9780415296441
Technology--History.
Material culture --History.
Material culture --Prehistory.
Technology--Social aspects.
T14.5 / T43 1993