Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology (Social Archaeology) - Hardcover

Dobres, Marcia-Anne

 
9781577181231: Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology (Social Archaeology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1577181239 ISBN 13: 9781577181231
Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2000

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The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.

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Marcia-Anne Dobres received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently teaching at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on Palaeolithic and contemporary hunter-gatherers, technology, social agency, and gender, as well as prehistoric art and symbolism. She has ongoing research projects in France and South Africa. She is senior editor of The Social Dynamics of Technology: Practice, Politics, and World Views (1999) and Agency in Archaeology (ed. with Robb, 2000).

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The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective. The author is explicitly concerned with studying ancient technological practices but the general concept of technology forms the centrepiece of discussion and is defined as an explicitly social, symbolic, and embodied endeavour that simultaneously brings into being both human agents and their material world.

Dobres argues that, for ancient technologies and products to be fully understood, we need to appreciate the historically constituted ways in which social agency, technical knowledge and the gestural acts of artefact production and use were socially meaningful and, thus, politically charged.

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The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective. The author is explicitly concerned with studying ancient technological practices but the general concept of technology forms the centrepiece of discussion and is defined as an explicitly social, symbolic, and embodied endeavour that simultaneously brings into being both human agents and their material world.

Dobres argues that, for ancient technologies and products to be fully understood, we need to appreciate the historically constituted ways in which social agency, technical knowledge and the gestural acts of artefact production and use were socially meaningful and, thus, politically charged.

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Verlag
*Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1577181239
ISBN 13 
9781577181231
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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