Technology and cultural tectonics : shifting values and meanings
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Technology and cultural tectonics : shifting values and meanings
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index
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Description
What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.
Table of Contents
1. The Technological Society 2. Honor Thy Father(s) and Thy Mother(s) 3. All in the Family 4. Prenatal Testing and its Discontents 5. The Frozen and the Dead 6. Time and Identity 7. Thinking in a New Key 8. Scales of Time and Space 9. Expansions
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