Masons, tricksters, and cartographers
Subtitle: comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indeigenous knowledge
By: David Turnbull.
Series: Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine.
Publisher: Harwood Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects.; Technology -- Social aspects.; Science and civilization -- History.; Knowledge, Sociology of.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Figures vii; title: Acknowledgements ix; title: Introduction From rationality to messiness:; title: Rethinking technoscientific knowledge 1; title: Chapter 1 'On with the motley': The contingent; title: assemblage of knowledge spaces 19; title: Chapter 2 Talk, templates and tradition: How; title: the masons -built Chartres Cathedral; title: without plans 53; title: Chapter 3 Tricksters and cartographers: Maps,; title: science and the state in the making; title: of a modern scientific knowledge space 89; title: Chapter 4 Pacific navigation: An alternative; title: scientific tradition 131; title: Chapter 5 Making malaria curable: Extending a; title: knowledge space to create a vaccine 161; title: Chapter 6 Messiness and order in turbulence; title: research 183; title: Conclusion Rationality, relativism and the politics; title: of knowledge 209; title: Bibliography 233; title: Index 259.