Technology and culture
By: Allen W. Batteau
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Long Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781577666080
Subjects: Social aspects; Technology assessment; Technology
Description: "Technology and Culture provides a comprehensive overview of anthropological and other theories examining the place of technology in culture, and the consequences of technology for cultural evolution. The book develops and contrasts anthropological discourse of technology and culture with humanistic and managerial views. It uses core anthropological concepts, including adaptation, evolution, totemic identity, and collective representations, to locate a board variety of technologies, ancient and modern, in a context of shared understandings and misunderstandings. The author draws on his own experience as an auto mechanic, computer programmer, ethnographer and aircraft pilot to demonstrate that technologies are cultural creations, encoding and accelerating the dreams and delusions of the societies that produce them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tools, technologies, and cultural evolution; title: The invention of modern technology; title: An endless frontier; title: Technology stumbles; title: The human factor; title: Technoscience versus culture; title: Cultures of technology; title: Technology for culture.