The Palgrave handbook of the anthropology of technology. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maja Hojer Bruun [and six others].
• Editors: Bruun, Maja Hojer
• Contents: The Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field.- Section 1: Perspectives, Fields, and Approaches.- Making 'Technology' Visible: Technical Activities and the Chaîne Opératoire.- Technology as Skill in Handwork and Craft: Basketwork and Handweaving.- Material Culture Studies: Objectification, Agency, and Intangibility.- Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction.- Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices.- Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object.- Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Gene Sequencing.- An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field.- Computational Ethnography: A Case of Covid-19's Methodological Consequences.- Section 2: Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing.- Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing.- Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge.- Charting the Unknown: Tracking the Self, Experimenting with the Digital.- Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene.- Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics.- Assembling Population Data in the Field: The Labour, Technologies, and Materialities of Quantification.- Peopled by Data: Statistical Knowledge Practices, Population-Making, and the State.- Data Practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures.- Section 3: Communities, Collectives, and Categories.- Communities, Collectives, and Categories.- Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice.- Learning, Technology, and the Instrumentalisation of Critique.- Technology, Gender, and Nation: Building Modern Citizens in Maoist China.- Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan.- Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking.- Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work.- Section 4: Ethics, Values, and Morality.- Ethics, Values, and Morality.- Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences.- Enacting Authenticity: Changing Ontologies of Biological Entities.- Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship.- The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values.- Articulations of Ethics: Energy Worlds and Moral Selves.- Competing Responsibilities and the Ethics of Care in Young People's Engagements with Digital Mental Health.- Committee Work: Stem Cell Governance in the United States.- Section 5: Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods.- Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods.- Accumulation: Exploring the Materiality of Energy Infrastructure.- Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China.- Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections.- Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorizing and Research.- Circuit Board Money: An Infrastructural Perspective on Digital Payments.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 306.46; Technology -- Anthropological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811670848
• Related ISBNs: 9789811670831
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