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Technological Choices Pierre Lemonnier

Technological Choices By Pierre Lemonnier

Technological Choices by Pierre Lemonnier

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This text deals with the adoption or rejection by a society of certain technological innovations and the cultural processes which results in this selection.

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Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic by Pierre Lemonnier

The hard back has been critically praised and sold well

One of the reviewers of the paperback edition said:
'Without question it is an extremely important collection of technology studies [...] cutting edge in 1993, this volume can be credited with convincing a generation of scholars to pay full attention to the 'social' side of technology.'

Features contributions from international scholars

About Pierre Lemonnier

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Pierre Lemonnier Chapter 1. North Wind, South Wind. Neolithic technical choices in the Jura Mountains, 3700-2400 BC, Pierre Petrequin Chapter 2. The Watch and the Waterclock. Technological choices/social choices, Genevieve Bedoucha Chapter 3. The Reindeerman's lasso, Tim Ingold Chapter 4. Pigs as Ordinary Wealth. Technical logic, exchange and leadership in New Guinea, Pierre Lemonnier Chapter 5. Pottery Techniques in India. Technical variants and social choice, Marie-Claude Mahias Chapter 6. Of Mills and Waterwheels. The hidden parameters of technological choices, Robert Cresswell Chapter 7. Technical Innovation and Cultural Resistance. The social weight of plowing in the vineyards of les Corbieres (Languedoc), Georges Guille-Escuret Chapter 8. The Hunter and his Gun in Haute-Provence, Nicolas Govoroff

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NLS9780415296441
9780415296441
0415296447
Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic by Pierre Lemonnier
Pierre Lemonnier
Material Cultures
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2002-09-26
440
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