| Technological Choices: Transformations in Material Cultures since the Neolithic Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lemonnier, Pierre (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415296447 ISBN-13: 9780415296441 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: "Technological Choices" is an examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures. Based on case studies covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, this book moves rapidly from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, stopping on the way to examine the tribes of Papua, New Guinea, rural Indian and North African societies and several European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-tech transportation devices. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 92023310 |
| Series: Material Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.16" (1.42 lbs) 440 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Technological Choices deals with the adoption or rejection by a society of certain technological innovations. It demonstrates that in any society, such choices result from cultural values and social relations, rather than inherent benefits in the technology itself and highlights revolutionary viewpoint has crucial implications for current Western societies. The book is based on case-studies covering a wide chronological and geographic span from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, from the tribes of Papua New Guinea, India and North Africa to European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-tech transportation devices. Technological Choices will be of great interest to students of archaeology and anthropology and the history of technology. It will also be valuable reading for economists and social historians. |