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Masons, tricksters and cartographers : comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indigenous knowledge /
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and hetero. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203304586 9780203304587 1280023317 9781280023316 1135288216 9781135288211 9786610023318 661002331X |