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Techniques, Technology and Civilization

By Marcel Mauss; Nathan Schlanger (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2014
ISBN
1571816623, 9781571816627
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7117006 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
196\184
Time added
2017-08-24 04:56:59
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Description

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts - including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth - are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological,anthropological or contemporary settings.

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