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Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist´s Inquiry into Western Technology
Robert McC. Adams
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Description for Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist´s Inquiry into Western Technology
hardcover. 299pp
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. ... Read more
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
Used, Like New
Dustjacket
Yes
Dustjacket Condition
good
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691026343
SKU
KLN0011105
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About Robert McC. Adams
Robert McC. Adams is a former Provost of the University of Chicago and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, he is also a Fellow (1995-96) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His many books and articles have focused on urban and agricultural development ... Read more
Reviews for Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist´s Inquiry into Western Technology
Adams's mature reflection on complex, interlocking issues in the historical development and avatars of inventions, science, engineering, and the state... Paths of Fire is the distillation of a rich life of thought, experience, and action, from the "big shoulders' of Chicago, to the sands of Uruk, to the halls of power and influence along the Mall in Washington, D.C. Journal ... Read more