Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-814-6 (ISBN)

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Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts — including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth — are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological,anthropological or contemporary settings.

Nathan Schlanger coordinates the AREA project (Archives of European Archaeology) at the INHA, Paris. He has published on prehistoric archaeology, on the technological contributions of Mauss and Leroi-Gourhan, and on the history of archaeology in colonial (African) contexts.

Preface

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Illustrations

Introduction: Technological Commitments: Marcel Mauss and the Study of Techniques in the French Social Sciences

Nathan Schlanger

Texts Chapter 1. Technology (1901)

Emile Durkheim

Chapter 2. Technology. Introduction (1903)

Henri Hubert

Chapter 3. Note on the Concept of Civilisation (1913)

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss

Chapter 4. The Nation (1920/1953, extracts)

Chapter 5. The Divisions of Sociology (1927, extracts)

Chapter 6. Debate on the Origins of Human Technology (1929)

Chapter 7. Civilisations, Their Elements and Forms (1929/1930)

Chapter 8. Fragment of a Plan of General Descriptive Sociology (on Tradition) (1934, extract)

Chapter 9. Techniques of the Body (1935)

Chapter 10. Technology (1935/1947)

Chapter 11. Conceptions Which Have Preceded the Notion of Matter (1939)

Chapter 12. Techniques and Technology (1941/1948)

Biographical Notes

General Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Publications of the Durkheim Press
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-814-9 / 1789208149
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-814-6 / 9781789208146
Zustand	Neuware