Research in Science and Technology Studies
Knowledge Systems
Will be published approx. on 16. October 1998
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-7623-0269-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
584 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0269-7 (9780762302697)
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Content
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).