a ISBN 0-8263-23693 (cloth : alk. paper-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number GN406

b Item number .A72 2001

a Dewey Classification 306.4/6

a Title Anthropological perspectives on technology /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Michael Brian Schiffer.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Albuquerque :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of New Mexico Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c2001.

a Extent xiv, 242 p. :

b Other physical details ill., maps ;

c Dimensions 29 cm.

a Title [Amerind Foundation New World studies series]

a General note Series from jacket.

a General note "An Amerind Foundation publication, Dragoon, Arizona."

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note Foreword / Anne I. Woosley -- Preface / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Ch. 1. Toward an Anthropology of Technology / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Ch. 2. Beyond Art and Technology: The Anthropology of Skill / Tim Ingold -- Ch. 3. Thought and Production: Insights of the Practitioner / Charles M. Keller -- Ch. 4. Meaning in the Making: Agency and the Social Embodiment of Technology and Art / Marcia-Anne Dobres -- Ch. 5. Symbols Do Not Create Meanings - Activities Do: Or, Why Symbolic Anthropology Needs the Anthropology of Technology / Bryan Pfaffenberger -- Ch. 6. Ritual Technology in an Extranatural World / William H. Walker -- Ch. 7. Toward an Archaeology of Needs / Richard R. Wilk -- Ch. 8. The Design Process as a Critical Component of the Anthropology of Technology / W. David Kingery -- Ch. 9. Understanding Artifact Variability and Change: a Behavioral Framework / James M. Skibo and Michael Brian Schiffer -- Ch. 10. Artifice Constrained: What Determines Technological Choice? / Peter Bleed -- Ch. 11. Building Bridges: Practice-based Ethnographies of Contemporary Technology / Lucy A. Suchman -- Ch. 12. Coordination of Technological Practice and Representations at the Boundaries / Meredith Aronson, David Bell and Dan Vermeer -- Ch. 13. From Sail to Steam at Sea in the Late Nineteenth Century / Richard A. Gould -- Ch. 14. The Explanation of Long-Term Technological Change / Michael Brian Schiffer.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technology

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Archaeology

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Industries Primitive

a Personal name Schiffer Michael Brian

d Dates associated with a name 1947