Research in Science and Technology Studies

Knowledge Systems

AvShirley Gorenstein

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Del 11 i serien Knowledge and Society

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Beskrivning

This study of science and technology looks at knowledge systems. Topics covered include: mapping encounters and (en)countering maps - a critical examination of cartographic resistance; the intricacies of technology transfer - travel as mode and method; and science, local knowledge and community.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-10-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:568 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Knowledge and Society
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN:9780762302697

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Matematik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: knowledge systems (S. Gorenstein). Mapping encounters and (en)countering maps: a critical examination of cartographic resistance (D. Turnbull). Science, local knowledge, and community (J.A. Schumacher). Knowing in action: men's work in the northern forest (M.L. VanderWolk). Expanding medical horizons: the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine (M.C. Miles). Seeing disease like the Fulani: background knowledge and metaschemas for malaria and other problems (A.J. Gordon). Tibetan Buddhist medicine and psychiatry: a perspective from the anthropology of knowledge (J. Barmark). The creation and nature(s) of indigenized psychologies from the perspectives of the anthropology of knowledge (C.M. Allwood). Archaeology of technoscientific language in the discourse of a Muslim engineer/politician (M. Lotfalian). Science as stranger and the worship of the word (W.K. Bauchspies). Intricacies of technology transfer: travel as mode and method (M. de Laet). Here, there, and nowhere at all: distribution, negotiation and virtuality in postmodern ethnography and engineering (S.E. Newman).