The social dynamics of technology :  practice, politics, and world views / 
edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and Christopher R. Hoffman. 
 - xvi, 240 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: a context for the present and future of technology studies / Marcia-Anne Dobres and Christopher R. Hoffman -- "After all, a hoe bought a wife": the social dimensions of ironworking among the Toro of East Africa / S. Terry Childs -- Crafts and the evolution of complex societies: new methodologies for modeling the organization of production, a Harappan example / Valentine Roux and Pierre Matarasso -- Toward the architecture of household service in New England, 1650-1850 / Roy Larick -- Intentional damage as technological agency: breaking metals in late prehistoric Mallorca, Spain / Christopher R. Hoffman -- Technology's links and chaînes: the processual unfolding of technique and technician / Marcia-Anne Dobres -- Worlds in the making: technological activities and the construction of intersubjective meaning / Bryan Pfaffenberger -- Dogs, snares, and cartridge belts: the poetics of a Northern Athapaskan narrative technology / Robin Ridington -- Exploitation of tradition: bone tool production and use at Colony Ross, California / Thomas A. Wake -- Conclusion: making material culture, making culture material / Christopher R. Hoffman and Marcia-Anne Dobres -- Afterward / Heather Lechtman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1560989092 9781560989097 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98038120 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Material culture<br/>Technology--Sociological aspects<br/>Technology--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN406.  / S6 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.46