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Technology as human social tradition : cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers
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ISBN: 0520276930 0520958330 9780520958333 9781322115740 1322115745 9780520276925 9780520276932 0520276922 Year: 2015 Volume: 7 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press

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Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradition to form, and the extent to which these cultural lineages exhibit congruence with one another and with language history. Drawing on the application of cultural transmission theory to empirical research, Jordan develops a descent-with-modification perspective on the technology of Northern Hemisphere hunter-gatherers. Case studies from indigenous societies in Northwest Siberia, the Pacific Northwest Coast, and Northern California provide cross-cultural insights related to the evolution of material culture traditions at different social and spatial scales. This book promises new ways of exploring some of the primary factors that generate human cultural diversity in the deep past and through to the present.

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Technology and civilization. --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Technological complexity. --- Prehistoric peoples --- Social evolution. --- Social learning. --- Intercultural communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Complexity, Technological --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Material culture. --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Learning --- Socialization --- Evolution --- Social change --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Anthropology --- Industries, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Civilization --- Social history --- Technology --- Anthropological aspects --- Philosophy --- Humanism. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Cultural. --- Archaeology. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- 1900 - 1999. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Prehistoric peoples - Material culture. --- Primitive societies --- anthropology. --- archaeology. --- cultural diversity. --- cultural lineages. --- cultural transmission theory. --- cumulative change. --- descent with modification. --- global history. --- human cultural material. --- human technology. --- hunter gatherers. --- indigenous societies. --- language history. --- material culture. --- northern california. --- northern hemisphere. --- northwest siberia. --- operational sequence. --- pacific northwest coast. --- social learning. --- social traditions. --- social. --- technology. --- tradition. --- variability.


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The essential Hirschman
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ISBN: 0691159904 1299870457 069116567X 1400848407 9780691165677 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,

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"The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice.Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, The Essential Hirschman is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book"--

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Industrialization. --- Economists --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays. --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Hirschman, Albert O. --- Hirschmann, Otto A. --- Хиршман, Альберт Отто --- Khirshman, Alʹbert Otto --- He-xi-man, A-er-bo-te O. --- 赫希曼, 阿尔伯特 O. --- Economics --- Economists - United States --- Industrialization --- Hirschman, Albert Otto, - 1915-2012 --- A Bias for Hope. --- Albert O. Hirschman. --- Colombian violence. --- European integration. --- James L. Payne. --- John Womack. --- Latin America. --- Mexican revolution. --- North American social science. --- William Arthur Lewis. --- analogical structures. --- apprehension. --- balanced growth. --- behavior. --- capitalism. --- capitalist development. --- citizens' voice. --- cognitive style. --- competition. --- complex phenomena. --- consumer goods. --- creativity. --- cumulative change. --- customs unions. --- democracy. --- democratic life. --- development economics. --- development theories. --- development. --- doux-commerce thesis. --- economic development. --- economic discourse. --- economic forces. --- economic integration. --- economics. --- emotions. --- enlarged political economy. --- envy. --- essays. --- explicit models of possibilities. --- feudal-shackles thesis. --- freedom. --- growth sectors. --- identity. --- import-substituting industrialization. --- income inequality. --- indifference. --- industrial growth. --- industrialization. --- inequality. --- intellectual leadership. --- intellectual. --- interest. --- late-late industrializing. --- linkage approach. --- linkage effects. --- literary imagination. --- little traditions. --- love. --- major polemical maneuvers. --- market society. --- marketplace. --- micro-Marxism. --- models. --- modern capitalist society. --- mutual-benefit claim. --- neo-Marxism. --- opinionated opinions. --- opinions. --- orthodox monoeconomics. --- paradigms. --- perception of change. --- personal welfare. --- perverse effect. --- political economy. --- political forces. --- political integration. --- political leadership. --- political participation. --- political power. --- political protest. --- political science. --- politics of integration. --- preference changes. --- primary exports. --- production. --- progressives. --- psychological effects. --- psychology. --- quality of life. --- reaction. --- reactive movements. --- real change. --- reformers. --- routine thinking. --- self-destruction thesis. --- self-interest. --- simple explanations. --- social change. --- social phenomena. --- social science. --- social sciences. --- sociopolitical consequences. --- staples. --- state power. --- statecraft. --- strong opinions. --- structural causes. --- theorizing. --- tunnel effect. --- underdevelopment. --- une conomie politique largie.

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