TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobres,Marcia-Anne
AU  - Hoffman,Christopher R.
TI  - The social dynamics of technology: practice, politics, and world views 
SN  - 1560989092
AV  - GN406. S6 1999
U1  - 306.46 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Washington
PB  - Smithsonian Institution Press
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Technology
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -