People and things
Skibo, James M
People and things : a behavioral approach to material culture / James M Skibo - New York : Springer, ©2008 - xiii, 170 pages 24cm.
Machine generated contents note: 1. People and Things: A Performance-Based Theory --
2. Behavior, Selection, Agency, Practice, and Beyond --
3. Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau --
4. Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking --
5. Devil is in the Details --
6. Ritual Performance: Ball Courts and Religious Interaction --
7. Social Theory and History in Behavioral Archaeology: Gender, Social Class, and the Demise of the Early Electric Car --
8. Studying Technological Differentiation.
This text sets forth a theory for understanding the relationship between people and things. Humans, whether in the distant past or in our current world, make choices while inventing, developing, replicating, adopting, and using their technologies. The theoretical model presented here provides the means to understand how people, whether it be Paleolithic stone tool makers or 21st century computer designers and users, negotiate these myriad factors throughout the artifact's life history. Archaeologists and anthropologists will find this book of interest as will historians, sociologists, philosophers of technology, and any scholars interested in technology-science-society interactions."--Jacke
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Material culture.
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People and things : a behavioral approach to material culture / James M Skibo - New York : Springer, ©2008 - xiii, 170 pages 24cm.
Machine generated contents note: 1. People and Things: A Performance-Based Theory --
2. Behavior, Selection, Agency, Practice, and Beyond --
3. Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau --
4. Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking --
5. Devil is in the Details --
6. Ritual Performance: Ball Courts and Religious Interaction --
7. Social Theory and History in Behavioral Archaeology: Gender, Social Class, and the Demise of the Early Electric Car --
8. Studying Technological Differentiation.
This text sets forth a theory for understanding the relationship between people and things. Humans, whether in the distant past or in our current world, make choices while inventing, developing, replicating, adopting, and using their technologies. The theoretical model presented here provides the means to understand how people, whether it be Paleolithic stone tool makers or 21st century computer designers and users, negotiate these myriad factors throughout the artifact's life history. Archaeologists and anthropologists will find this book of interest as will historians, sociologists, philosophers of technology, and any scholars interested in technology-science-society interactions."--Jacke
9780387771328
International Book Distributors ;Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Social Sciences
Culture & institutions
Material culture.
Sciences humaines.
Sciences humaines.
306 SKI
