ISBN:
1299951325
,
9781299951327
,
9781137338365
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 188 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Print version Technology and Cultural Tectonics : Shifting Values and Meanings
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology Social aspects
;
Technology Anthropological aspects
;
Technology and civilization
;
Culture-Study and teaching
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. F. Allan Hanson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA.
Abstract:
〈p 〉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 information technologies forge unprecedented family relationships, produce a new mode of thinking based on the confluence of artificial and human intelligence, and reconfigure conventional scales of time and space. Taken together, they redefine what it is to be human
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index
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