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Tools Totems And Totalities

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Author : Allen Batteau
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-02-11

Tools Totems And Totalities written by Allen Batteau and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-11 with Social Science categories.

This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer–anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer questions not only about why modern societies have great expectations of technology, but also of why these technologies often fail to meet expectations. Modern societies often search for technological solutions (“technofixes”) to what are institutional problems, which include border crossings or urban mobility, or improvements in productivity or improved communication. It is disappointing when technofixes, whether border walls or driverless cars or social media, fail to live up to their promises of greater personal autonomy (such as afforded by driverless cars) or improved social harmony through social media. Examining technology from the perspectives of instrumentality (“tools”), identity (“totems”), and world-defining systems (“totalities”) develops a comprehensive perspective that is at once historically informed and cross-culturally accurate. Although instrumentality is obvious and is at the core of any understanding of technology, identity is less so; yet many modern “tribes” create their identity in terms of technological objects and systems, whether transport systems (cars and airplanes) or social media or weapons (guns). Further, modern technologies span the globe, so that they exert imperative coordination over distant populations; the use of cell phones around the world is testimony to this fact. Such a critical perspective on technology can be useful in policy discussions of numerous issues affecting contemporary institutions.

Controversial Issues In School Librarianship

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Author : Nancy Everhart
language : en
Publisher: Linworth
Release Date : 2003

Controversial Issues In School Librarianship written by Nancy Everhart and has been published by Linworth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Education categories.

Provides library media specialists with unbiased facts and a pro vs. con look at the issues that affect the school library media profession, including scheduling, image, certification, collection development, and computerized reading programs.

Fool S Gold

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Author : Mark Y. Herring
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-09

Fool S Gold written by Mark Y. Herring and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROM's were all once predicted as the contemporary library's heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material.

Lithic Technology In The Middle Potomac River Valley Of Maryland And Virginia

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Author : Wm. Jack Hranicky
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Lithic Technology In The Middle Potomac River Valley Of Maryland And Virginia written by Wm. Jack Hranicky and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Social Science categories.

The archaeological focus on a single geographical area offers an opportunity to present projectile point typology as a microtechnology even though some of the types have widespread distributions. The area of the Middle Potomac River Valley presents a physical artefact collection for a view of prehistory. This volume, which includes several hundred images of the investigation, artefacts and archaeological research compiled and recorded from over 30 years of work in the area, includes: -an overview of the Middle Potomac River Valley archaeology including the peoples and sites; -new data and interpretations for the lithic technology of the area; and -classification and typology of artefacts including the usage of projectile point, axe, celt, drill, and knife implements. This work will be of great interest to prehistory archaeologists, especially those working in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States.

Totemism

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Author : Claude Levi-Strauss
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2016-05-10

Totemism written by Claude Levi-Strauss and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-10 with Philosophy categories.

"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure." – Commentary