Technology and Cultural Tectonics - Shifting Values and Meanings

Zusatztext To come. Informationen zum Autor F. Allan Hanson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA. Klappentext What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions. Zusammenfassung What impact has technology had on cultural meanings! values! and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Technological Society 2. Honor Thy Father(s) and Thy Mother(s) 3. All in the Family 4. Prenatal Testing and its Discontents 5. The Frozen and the Dead 6. Time and Identity 7. Thinking in a New Key 8. Scales of Time and Space 9. Expansions

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• Authors: a Hanson, A. Hanson, F Allan Hanson, F Allan Hanson Hanson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349465248
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46524-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnology, engineering, Social & cultural anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Social Anthropology, Engineering: general, Engineering, general, Technology and Engineering, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, identity;Institution;research;Technologie;technology