David Turnbull

Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers

Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This highly original study puts forward the notion that every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9789058230010
• ISBN-10: 9058230015
• Artikelnr.: 21943899

Autorenporträt

David Turnbull

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: From Rationality to Messiness: Rethinking Technoscientific
Knowledge 2. On With the Motley: The Contingent Assemblage of Knowledge
Spaces 3. Talk, Templates and Tradition: How the Masons Built Chartres
Cathedral Without Plans 4. Tricksters and Cartographers: Maps, Science and
the State in the Making of a Modern Scientific Knowledge Space 5. Pacific
Navigation: An Alternative Scientific Tradition 6. Making Malaria Curable:
Extending a Knowledge Space to Create a Vaccine 7. Messiness and Order in
Turbulence Research 8. Conclusion: Rationality, Relativism and the Politics
of Knowledge