Objects in Motion - Globalizing Technology

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Nina Möllers and Bryan DeWalt Klappentext The latest volume in the Artefacts series, Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology delves into globalization's various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original localized frames of meaning, these objects are resignified in new contexts, connected by the interplay of the global landscapes. Bringing together the methods and objects of study from anthropology and the history of technology, Objects in Motion explores the technological, cultural, and political dimensions of globalization in the past and the present. Zusammenfassung The latest volume in the Artefacts series!  Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology  delves into globalization's various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original localized frames of meaning! these objects are resignified in new contexts! connected by the interplay of the global landscapes. Bringing together the methods and objects of study from anthropology and the history of technology! Objects in Motion  explores the technological! cultural! and political dimensions of globalization in the past and the present.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Dewalt, Nina Mollers
• Assisted by: Bryan Dewalt (Editor), Nina Mollers (Editor)
• Publisher: Smithsonian books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781935623977
• ISBN: 978-1-935623-97-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 257 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Artefacts: Studies in the Hist; Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology; Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology; Artefacts: Studies in the Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries