یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. Mavhunga shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, he explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, Mavhunga considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. He describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, Mavhunga writes, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. He argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them."
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
MIL
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
MIT Press
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
MIT Press
شماره انبار
646387
شماره انبار
8482
شماره انبار
9780262326155
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Transient workspaces
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9780262027243
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Economic anthropology-- Africa.
موضوع مستند نشده
Material culture-- Africa.
موضوع مستند نشده
Poaching-- Zimbabwe.
موضوع مستند نشده
Subsistence hunting-- Zimbabwe.
موضوع مستند نشده
Technology transfer-- Africa.
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
POL-- 038000
موضوع مستند نشده
SOC-- 002010
موضوع مستند نشده
SOC-- 022000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
306
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4/6096
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
GN645
نشانه اثر
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M3526
2014eb
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