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Guerres et festins : paix, échanges et compétition dans les Highlands de Nouvelle-Guinée
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ISBN: 273510379X 9782735103799 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme,


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Paludiers de guerande : production du sel et histoire economique
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ISBN: 2852651149 9782852651142 Year: 1984 Volume: 22 Publisher: Paris : Institut d'ethnologie,

Les salines de l'Ouest : logique technique, logique sociale
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ISBN: 2901725031 2859391436 2859391029 9782901725039 9782859391027 Year: 1980 Publisher: Paris : Lille : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Presses universitaires de Lille,

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Mundane objects : materiality and non-verbal communication
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ISBN: 9781611320572 9781611320565 9781611320589 9781611326819 1611320585 1611320569 1611320577 131542424X 1315424258 9781315424255 9781315424224 9781315424231 1315424231 Year: 2013 Publisher: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press,

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This concise volume shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in non-verbal communication, both in non-ritual and in ritual situations. Lemonnier shows that some objects, their physical properties and their material implementation, are wordless expressions of fundamental aspects of a way of living and thinking, as well as sometimes the only means of expressing the inexpressible. Through the study of the most mundane technical activities such as fence building, creating models cars, or trapping fish, we often gain a better understanding of what these objects mean and how they work within their cultures of origin. In addition to anthropologists and archaeologists, this book will also be of interest to sociologists, historians, philosophers, cognitive anthropologists and primatologists, for whom the intertwining of “function” and “style” is the very mark of all cultural behavior.

Technological choices : transformation in material cultures since the Neolithic
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ISBN: 0415073316 Year: 1993 Volume: *3 Publisher: London Routledge

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'Technological Choices' applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, 'Technological Choices' asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in technology itself. Of course, this revolutionary viewpoint has critical implications for contemporary Western societies. Based on case studies covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, 'Technological Choices' moves rapidly from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, stopping on the way to examine the tribes of Papua, New Guinea, rural Indian and North African societies as well as several European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-techtransportation devices. With its breadth of subject matter and multidisciplinary approach, 'Technological Choices' offers new insight into the interrelationship between technology and society. Also unprecedented is the book's emphasis on the functional aspects of material culture.


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Ceux de la mer
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Year: 1914 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

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La chasse à l'authentique : Histoires d'un âge de pierre hors contexte

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Archéologie lacustre et ethnologie des techniques

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Quand la publicité est aussi un roman
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris: Hachette,

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