Series from jacket.

"An Amerind Foundation publication, Dragoon, Arizona."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.