ISBN: 9781941792148 - andré leroi-gourhan on technology: a selection of writings from the 1930s to the 1960s (bard graduate center: cultural histories of the material world) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology and archaeology. In France, his intellectual importance rivals that of the Claude Lévi-Strauss, yet Leroi-Gourhan's major contributions are almost entirely unknown in the Anglophone world. This collection seeks to change that. This selection highlights some of his chief influences, such as elaborating a theory of technology, which argues that material culture focuses on the object in use and how use is a dynamic feature that has specific consequences for human evolution and human society. With serious ramifications for our understanding of material culture, putting Leroi-Gourhan's thinking about technology into English will have an immediate and transformative impact on material culture studies.…