Description: Technological Choices : Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic, Paperback by Lemonnier, Pierre, ISBN 0415296447, ISBN-13 9780415296441, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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. Th 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.
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Book Title: Technological Choices : Transformation in Material Cultures Since
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Technological Choices: Transformations in Material Cultures since the Neolithic
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Archaeology
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 658 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Pierre Lemonnier
Series: Material Cultures
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
