David Turnbull

Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers

Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

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 thrugh 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 heterogeneous motleys.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9789057024993
• ISBN-10: 9057024993
• Artikelnr.: 31574882

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