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SOCIETY , NATURE AND THE CONCEPT OF TECHNOLOGY Tim Ingold For many centuries , Western thought has been dominated by the idea that the mission of mankind is to achieve mastery over nature . The world of nature is commonly characterised ...
SOCIETY , NATURE AND THE CONCEPT OF TECHNOLOGY Tim Ingold For many centuries , Western thought has been dominated by the idea that the mission of mankind is to achieve mastery over nature . The world of nature is commonly characterised ...
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It is meaningless , so the argument goes , even to speak of ' hunting and gathering societies ' as a class , since these ... The impact of technology on society may be affirmative or neutral , its formulae prescriptive or permissive ...
It is meaningless , so the argument goes , even to speak of ' hunting and gathering societies ' as a class , since these ... The impact of technology on society may be affirmative or neutral , its formulae prescriptive or permissive ...
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It is impossible to conceive of a modern industrial system in a feudal society . This latter had to vanish to make the Industrial Revolution possible . In each particular case of industrial transformation the relative influences of ...
It is impossible to conceive of a modern industrial system in a feudal society . This latter had to vanish to make the Industrial Revolution possible . In each particular case of industrial transformation the relative influences of ...
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