Technology and Cultural Tectonics: Shifting Values and Meanings

ISBN-13: 9781137342010 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 188 str.

F. Allan Hanson

Opis

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. Contemporary reproductive, medical, genetic, and

Recenzje

To come.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

F. Allan Hanson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA.