The Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field
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The Anthropology of Technology : The Formation of a Field. / Bruun, Maja Hojer; Wahlberg, Ayo.
The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology. red. / Maja Hojer Bruun; Ayo Wahlberg; Rachel Douglas-Jones; Cathrine Hasse; Klaus Hoeyer; Dorthe Brogård Kristensen; Brit Ross Winthereik. Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. s. 1-33.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Anthropology of Technology
T2 - The Formation of a Field
AU - Bruun, Maja Hojer
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Anthropos and techne are inseparable when it comes to the study of humans and their societies. From its very origins as a discipline, anthropology has recorded and researched human-technology interfaces in efforts to account for and understand forms of social organisation and practice as well as systems of belief and meaning throughout the world. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the gradual formation of ‘anthropology of technology’ as a field of enquiry, from early evolutionary studies of technology via critiques of it by those who championed diffusionist understandings, to Maussian approaches to techniques as material actions, technology as skilled practice, and more contemporary understandings of technologies in terms of socio-technical systems and infrastructures. It is exactly such a multiplicity of approaches that has contributed to the thriving anthropologies of technology that make up this field of enquiry, allowing for analytical and methodological scaling on the part of the ethnographer, who can choose to focus on embodied skills, on practices/material actions, or on larger socio-technical systems which, together, make up technologies.
AB - Anthropos and techne are inseparable when it comes to the study of humans and their societies. From its very origins as a discipline, anthropology has recorded and researched human-technology interfaces in efforts to account for and understand forms of social organisation and practice as well as systems of belief and meaning throughout the world. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the gradual formation of ‘anthropology of technology’ as a field of enquiry, from early evolutionary studies of technology via critiques of it by those who championed diffusionist understandings, to Maussian approaches to techniques as material actions, technology as skilled practice, and more contemporary understandings of technologies in terms of socio-technical systems and infrastructures. It is exactly such a multiplicity of approaches that has contributed to the thriving anthropologies of technology that make up this field of enquiry, allowing for analytical and methodological scaling on the part of the ethnographer, who can choose to focus on embodied skills, on practices/material actions, or on larger socio-technical systems which, together, make up technologies.
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_1
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_1
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-981-16-7083-1
SP - 1
EP - 33
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
A2 - Bruun, Maja Hojer
A2 - Wahlberg, Ayo
A2 - Douglas-Jones, Rachel
A2 - Hasse, Cathrine
A2 - Hoeyer, Klaus
A2 - Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård
A2 - Winthereik, Brit Ross
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Singapore
ER -
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