Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Volume 9Department of Archaeology, 1990 - Archaeology |
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... abstract and intangible . It is in conceiving of techniques as actes efficaces that their social concreteness and relevance is emphatically demonstrated by Mauss . The technical object - as it exists , as it signifies , as it is ' given ...
... abstract and intangible . It is in conceiving of techniques as actes efficaces that their social concreteness and relevance is emphatically demonstrated by Mauss . The technical object - as it exists , as it signifies , as it is ' given ...
Page 106
... abstract geometrical form upon the world , s / he works with and through the proper- ties of matter . The concept of a resisting nature , forced by Man's hand to his will is entirely a product of post ' Enlightenment ' rationalism ...
... abstract geometrical form upon the world , s / he works with and through the proper- ties of matter . The concept of a resisting nature , forced by Man's hand to his will is entirely a product of post ' Enlightenment ' rationalism ...
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... abstract knowledge , experience and ideas on the one hand and specific contingent contexts on the other . Since the raw material is never standard and gestures of percussion are never perfectly delivered there is always some uncertainty ...
... abstract knowledge , experience and ideas on the one hand and specific contingent contexts on the other . Since the raw material is never standard and gestures of percussion are never perfectly delivered there is always some uncertainty ...
Contents
TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES | 3 |
Nathan Schlanger | 18 |
Pierre Lemonnier | 27 |
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Acheulean acquisition action on matter African archaeology analysis anthropology approach Archaeological Review argued artefacts aspects basis behaviour bifaces Cambridge 9:1 Cambridge University Press chaîne opératoire complex concept of technology context core debitage duration of apprenticeship East German Eastern Europe economic elements environment Etiolles evidence evolution evolutionary example flakes flintknapping Franchthi Cave function gesture Gowlett handaxe hominids human hunter-gatherers hunting and gathering individual industries Ingold innovation interpretation Karlin knapper knapping know-how knowledge Leroi-Gourhan lithic lithic analysis Magdalenian manufacture Marxism material culture Mauss meaning Mesolithic nature Neolithic object Oldowan operational organisation Palaeolithic Paris Pelegrin Perlès Pigeot possible practical prehistoric problem raw material relationship Review from Cambridge sequence simply skills social relations society spatial specific stone axes stone tools striking platform structure symbolic technical activities techniques techno-economic theoretical theory tion transformation understanding Upper Palaeolithic Wynn