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9780415073318

Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415073318

  • ISBN10:

    0415073316

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-08-18
  • Publisher: Routledge

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transportation devices. With its breadth of subject matter and multidisciplinary approach, "Technological Choices" offers new insight into the interrelationship between technology and society. Also unprecedented is the book's emphasis on the functional aspects of material culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Pierre Lemonnier
North Wind, South Wind. Neolithic technical choices in the Jura Mountains, 3700-2400 BC
The Watch and the Waterclock. Technological choices/social choices
The Reindeerman's lasso
Pigs as Ordinary Wealth. Technical logic, exchange and leadership in New Guinea
Pottery Techniques in India. Technical variants and social choice
Of Mills and Waterwheels. The hidden parameters of technological choices
Technical Innovation and Cultural Resistance. The social weight of plowing in the vineyards of les Corbieres (Languedoc)
The Hunter and his Gun in Haute-Provence
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