Technological Innovations & Transferance, Social Change, Psychological Anthropology, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology - General & Miscellaneous, Evolution
Technological Perspectives on Behavioral Change
Michael B. Schiffer
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Overview
Human societies have always been characterized by a dependence on artifacts, from prehistoric stone tools to modern electronic devices. Technology responds to and affects virtually all human behavior; yet the interdependence of behavior and artifacts has never been studied intensively. Archaeologist Schiffer now draws on his discipline's familiarity with artifacts--and the processes of change they reveal--to offer new insight into the study of behavioral change. Drawing on case studies that deal with changes in architecture, ceramics and electronic technology, he emphasizes the central idea that the explanations of change must focus on the nexus of behavior and artifacts in the context of activities.Editorials
Booknews
Seven essays written over the past decade draw on the reactions to technological change that are embedded in archaeological records and have been observed during recent years, to provide evidence that is sufficiently longitudinal to point at least in the general direction of laws of human behavior. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 15, 1992
Publisher
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1992.
Pages
168
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780816511952