A Cognitive Ethnography Of Knowledge And Material Culture

Author : Mads Solberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030725111
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture written by Mads Solberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the laboratory, offering a frontline perspective on how new insights come to life. An exercise in the anthropology of knowledge, this story follows a community of biologists in Western Norway in their quest to build a novel experimental system for research on Lepeoptheirus salmonis, a parasite that has become a major pest in salmon aquaculture. The book offers a window on the making of this material culture of science, and how biological phenomena and their representations are skillfully transformed and made meaningful within a rich cognitive ecology. Conventional accounts of experiments see their purpose as mainly auxiliary, as handmaidens to theory. By looking closely at experimental activities and their materiality, this book shows how experimentation contributes to knowledge production through a broader set of epistemic actions. In drawing on a combination of approaches from anthropology and cognitive science, it offers a unique contribution to the fields of cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, science and technology studies and the philosophy of science.

Author : Phillip Vannini
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103018
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life written by Phillip Vannini and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.

Author : Christopher Y. Tilley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412900393
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Material Culture written by Christopher Y. Tilley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. This handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human.

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135361630
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Cultures written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date analysis of a developing field in sociological and anthropological based courses.; This book is intended for undergraduate/MA courses on material culture and consumption within cultural studies and anthropology degree schemes.

Author : Roy G. D'Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521459761
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Cognitive Anthropology written by Roy G. D'Andrade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during the l950s and l960s which was concerned with how different cultures classify kinship relationships and the natural environment, and then traces the development of more complex and sophisticated cognitive theories of classification in anthropology which took place in the l970s and l980s. In an analysis of more recent developments, the author considers work involving cultural models, emotion, motivation and action. He concludes with a summary of the theoretical perspective of cognitive anthropology.

Author : Helle Juel Jensen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877124428X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excavating the Mind written by Helle Juel Jensen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavating the Mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current developments within sociology, psychology and the cognitive sciences, yet it aims to supplement the focus on modern, predominantly Western societies and individuals with studies of different cultural contexts and processes in the evolutionary and historical past as well as the ethnographic present. With contributions from cognitive and social archaeology as well as anthropology, semiotics and the history of religion, the book combines well-illustrated case studies covering a wide chronological and geographic span - from Neolithic Europe to the present-day South Pacific - with incisive discussion of particular theoretical issues in the study of mind and material culture. Excavating the Mind is an original contribution to the multidisciplinary debate on the uniquely human entanglement of complex material cultures and mental worlds.

Author : Maria Impedovo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 147586938X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a Teacher Collective written by Maria Impedovo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book addresses the following challenge: How do we create and sustain a teacher community? For practitioners, the main question in this handbook is: How do we build and facilitate teacher communities? The different chapters discuss teacher interaction for learning and professional development in light of three constructs: the group, the community, and the network. There is a wealth of literature, especially on theoretical frameworks, success factors, and barriers to participation in teacher communities. However, this book addresses the need for a step-by-step guide with valuable suggestions for those who want to create (from scratch) and support a community of teachers brought together to deal with specific issues and, importantly, mediated by educational technology

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847884946
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and the Individual written by Daniel Miller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Contributors have drawn on approaches from material culture to create analytical portraits of individuals.

Author : G. Mark Schoepfle
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 154435102X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Cognitive Ethnography and Systematic Field Work written by G. Mark Schoepfle and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Cognitive Ethnography and Systematic Field Work by G. Mark Schoepfle guides readers on the fundamentals of cognitive ethnography. The focus of this qualitative technique is collecting data from interviews. This brief text covers using this method from starting a research project to writing a report.

Author : Cathrine Hasse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401796068
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthropology of Learning written by Cathrine Hasse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding of culture as emerging in a process of learning open up for new understandings, which is useful for researchers, practitioners and students interested in dynamic studies of culture and cultural studies of organisations. The new approach goes beyond culture as a static, essentialist entity and open for our possibility to learn in organisations across national cultures, across ethnicity and across the apparently insurmountable local educational differences which makes it difficult for people to communicate working together in an increasingly globalized world. The empirical examples are mainly drawn from organisations of education and science which are melting-pots of cultural encounters.