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"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Colección:Mobility studies
Temas:
Subsistence hunting > Zimbabwe.
Poaching > Zimbabwe.
Material culture > Africa.
Technology transfer > Africa.
Economic anthropology > Africa.
Chasse de subsistance > Zimbabwe.
Braconnage > Zimbabwe.
Culture matérielle > Afrique.
Transfert de technologie > Afrique.
Anthropologie économique > Afrique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Economic anthropology
Material culture
Subsistence hunting
Poaching
Technology transfer
Africa
Zimbabwe
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
ENVIRONMENT/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Guided mobility
  • The professoriate of the hunt
  • The coming of the gun
  • Tsetse invasions
  • The professoriate of the hunt and the Tsetse fly
  • Poaching as criminalized innovation
  • Chimurenga : the transient workspace of self-liberation
  • The professoriate of the hunt and international ivory poaching
  • Conclusions : transient workspaces in times of crisis.

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