Knowledge and society : studies in the sociology of culture past and present : a research annual

Author(s)

• Jones, Robert Alun
• Kuklick, Henrika
• Long, Elizabeth
• Hargens, Lowell
• Pickering, Andrew
• Rip, Arie
• Hess, David J.
• Layne, Linda L.
• Gorenstein, Shirley

Bibliographic Information

Knowledge and society : studies in the sociology of culture past and present : a research annual

editors, Robert Alun Jones, Henrika Kuklick

JAI Press, 1981-

• v. 3
• v. 5
• v. 6
• v. 8
• v. 9
• v. 10
• v. 11

Other Title

The anthropology of science and technology

Note

v 5-6: editors, Henrika Kuklich, Elizabeth Long

v. 8: editors, Lowell Hargens, Robert Alun Jones, Andrew Pickering

Volumes 1 and 2 published as: Research in sociology of knowledge, sciences and art

Subtitle of v. 4: current perspectives on the history of the social sciences(=> <BA04251684>)

Subtitle of v. 9: the anthropology of science and technology

Subitle of v. 10: research in science and technology studies : material culture

Subitle of v. 11: research in science and technology studies : knowledge sysems

Series editors: v. 9. Arie Rip. volume editors, David J. Hess, Linda L. Layne -- v. 10-11. Shirley Gorenstein

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 11 ISBN 9780762302697

Description

This study of science and technology looks at knowledge systems. Topics covered include: mapping encounters and (en)countering maps - a critical examination of cartographic resistance; the intricacies of technology transfer - travel as mode and method; and science, local knowledge and community.

Table of Contents

Introduction: knowledge systems (S. Gorenstein). Mapping encounters and (en)countering maps: a critical examination of cartographic resistance (D. Turnbull). Science, local knowledge, and community (J.A. Schumacher). Knowing in action: men's work in the northern forest (M.L. VanderWolk). Expanding medical horizons: the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine (M.C. Miles). Seeing disease like the Fulani: background knowledge and metaschemas for malaria and other problems (A.J. Gordon). Tibetan Buddhist medicine and psychiatry: a perspective from the anthropology of knowledge (J. Barmark). The creation and nature(s) of indigenized psychologies from the perspectives of the anthropology of knowledge (C.M. Allwood). Archaeology of technoscientific language in the discourse of a Muslim engineer/politician (M. Lotfalian). Science as stranger and the worship of the word (W.K. Bauchspies). Intricacies of technology transfer: travel as mode and method (M. de Laet). Here, there, and nowhere at all: distribution, negotiation and virtuality in postmodern ethnography and engineering (S.E. Newman).

Volume

v. 9 ISBN 9780892329731

Description

Part of a series examining different aspects of knowledge and society, this volume focuses on the anthropology of science and technology. Divided into three parts, it covers: the reconstruction of medical science and technology; science and technology at large; and discipline, culture and power.

Table of Contents

• Preface, David J. Hess and Linda L. Layne
• introduction - the new ethnography and the anthropology of science and technology, David J. Hess. Part 1 Reconstructing medical science and technology: of fetuses and angels - fragmentation and integration in narratives of pregnancy loss, Linda L. Layne
• the technocratic body and the organic body - cultural models for women's birth choices, Robbie E. David-Floyd
• blaming the user in medical informatics - the cultural nature of scientific practice, Diana E. Forsythe. Part 2 Science and technology at large: multiple contexts, multiple meanings - scientists in the European space agency, Stacia E. Zabusky
• CAD/CAM saves the nation? toward an anthropology of technology, Gary L. Downey
• severing the ties - fragmentation and dignity in late modernity, Paul Rabinow. Part 3 Discipline, culture and power: the anthropology of the academy - when we are the indians, Roberto Kant de Lima
• disciplining heterodoxy, circumventing discipline - parapsychology, anthropologically, David J. Hess.

Volume

v. 10 ISBN 9781559380003

Description

This volume presents discussions of material culture and society. It offers a perspective that recognizes technology as material culture, that is, as manufactured things spawned by a community and as characteristic of it as its language, behaviour and oral and written knowledge. The chapter "Progress in Separate Spheres" addresses the relationship between the theme of progress and material culture through advertising. Another chapter analyzes the computer and points out that the physical attributes of the machine make it an enigma which cannot be revealed by disassembling its working parts, but must be discovered through the mental comprehension of its processes. Two papers discuss the introduction of technologies to communities from different perspectives. The volume ends with a paper on human automata, an example of an object in which technology and humanity confront each other.

Table of Contents

• Material culture, Shirley Gorenstein
• progress in separate spheres - selling 19th-century technologies, Pamela Walker Laird
• "excavating" the present - the computer as gendered material culture, Merete Lie
• the electric fridge and other recollections - on things as memory objects, Liv Emma Thorsen
• technologies and interpretations - the case of the telephone, John W. Bakke
• the culture of instrument - a case from the engineering sciences, Lusin Babla-Gokalp
• toward a grammar of artefacts, Russell Mills
• separate from the "world" - the use of material culture in Shaker social reproduction, Kenneth D. Croes
• reflections in a mechanical mirror - automata as doubles and as tools, Linda M. Strauss.

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Details

• NCID: BA02729643
• ISBN:
  • 089232161X
  • 0892323388
  • 0892326816
  • 0892329106
  • 0892329734
  • 1559380004
  • 0762302690
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Greenwich, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 361.5
  • NDC8 : 361.6