| Description |
1 online resource (809 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field -- Technology and Techniques -- Evolution Versus Diffusion -- From Artefacts to Processes -- 1980s and 1990s: Programmes for an Anthropology of Technology -- The Early 2000s: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Methodological Innovation -- A Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology for the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Part I: Perspectives, Fields, and Approaches |
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Chapter 2: Making 'Technology' Visible: Technical Activities and the Chaîne Opératoire -- The Chaîne Opératoire: Definitions, Trajectories, and Issues -- 'Technical' as an Analytical Category: From 'Technical Acts' to 'Technical Activities' -- Taming the Analytical: Methodological Considerations -- Making Processes Visible -- Conclusion: Making Concepts Visible -- References -- Chapter 3: Technology as Skill in Handwork and Craft: Basketwork and Handweaving -- Baskets and Basketry -- Technology as Skill and Tool Use: A Phenomenological Approach -- Gathering Basketry Knowledge |
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Basketry 'Knowing How' -- Basketry, Skill, and Machines -- Contrasting Hand and Loom Weaving -- Skill and Knowledge -- The Human in the Weaving -- References -- Chapter 4: Material Culture Studies: Objectification, Agency, and Intangibility -- Technology and Material Culture -- From Material Culture to Materiality -- Materials and Materiality -- Agency -- The Essence and Absence of Things -- Case Study: Atmospheric Technologies -- Looking Ahead -- References -- Chapter 5: Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction -- From the Woman Question to the Study of Science Cultures |
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Feminist Anthropology of Biomedicine and Reproduction -- A Feminist Technoscience Study of Medical Imaging Technologies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices -- Contextualising Predicaments -- Apparatus as Ethnographic Object -- A Bio-turn -- Lines and Rhizomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object -- Constructing Humans -- Expanding the Boundaries -- Acknowledging Technological Boundary Making -- Humaning Humanoids |
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Ontogenesis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Sequencing Technologies -- Anthropologies of Race Itself -- Structural Variation and Ethnicity-Specific Reference Genomes -- Building Genomic Order -- References -- Chapter 9: An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field -- Design Anthropology and Emerging Technologies -- Emerging Technologies -- Emerging Technologies and Problem-Solution Narratives -- Accidents, Trust, and Emerging Technologies |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Trust in Emerging Technologies from an Anthropological Perspective |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wahlberg, Ayo
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Douglas-Jones, Rachel
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Hasse, Cathrine
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Hoeyer, Klaus
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Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård
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Winthereik, Brit Ross
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| ISBN |
9789811670848 |
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9811670846 |
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