transformation in material cultures since the Neolithic /
edited by Pierre Lemonnier
New York :
Routledge,
1993
xvi, 420 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Material cultures
Includes bibliographical references and index
A gazogene in Costa Rica : an experiment in techno-sociology / Madeleine Akrich -- The factory as artefact / Bryan Pfaffenberger -- Ethnography of a "high-tech" case : about Aramis / Bruno Latour -- Dominant representations and technical choices : a method of analysis with examples from aeronautics / Jean-François Quilici-Pacaud
North wind, south wind : Neolithic technical choices in the Jura Mountains, 3700-2400 BC / Pierre Pétrequin -- The watch and the waterclock : technological choices/social choices / Geneviève Bédoucha -- The reindeerman's lasso / Tim Ingold -- Pigs as ordinary wealth : technical logic, exchange and leadership in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- Pottery techniques in India : technical variants and social choice / Marie-Claude Mahias -- Of mills and waterwheels : the hidden parameters of technological choice / Robert Cresswell -- Technical innovation and cultural resistance : the social weight of plowing in the vineyards of Les Corbiéres (Languedoc) / Georges Guille-Escuret -- The hunter and his gun in Haute-Provence / Nicolas C. Govoroff -- Giving the potter a choice : conceptual aspects of poetry techniques / Sander van der Leeuw