[Air-L] Definition of technology?

[Philipp Budka]

Dear Ana,

For anthropological perspectives on technology and possible definitions, 
see e.g.

Adams, R. McC. (1996). Paths of fire: An anthropologist's inquiry into 
western technology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

de la Cadena, M. et al. (2015). Anthropology and STS: Generative 
interfaces, multiple locations. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 
5(1), 437-475. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.1.020

Escobar, A. (1995). Anthropology and the future: New technologies and 
the reinvention of culture. Futures, 27(4), 409-421.

Fischer, M. J. (2007). Four genealogies for a recombinant anthropology 
of science and technology. Cultural Anthropology, 22(4), 539-615.

Gell, Alfred (1988). Technology and magic. Anthropology Today 4(2), 6-9.

Hess, D. J., & Layne, L. (Eds.). (1992). Knowledge and society. Volume 
9, The anthropology of science and technology. London: JAI Press.

Ingold, T. (1997). Eight themes in the anthropology of technology. 
Social Analysis, 41(1), 106-138.

Latour, B. (2014). Technical does not mean material. HAU: Journal of 
Ethnographic Theory, 4(1), 507-510. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau4.1.033

Pfaffenberger, B. (1988). Fetishised objects and humanised nature: 
Towards an anthropology of technology. Man, 23(2), 236-252.

Pfaffenberger, B. (1992). Social anthropology of technology. Annual 
Review of Anthropology, 21, 491-516.

Sigaut, F. (1997). Technology. In T. Ingold (Ed.), Companion 
encyclopedia of anthropology: Humanity, culture and social life. London: 
Routledge.

All the best,

Philipp


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Dear AoIRs,

I am a migration and border studies scholar researching how technologies
(from mobile phones to drones to databases) affect migration journeys. I am
not familiar with STS scholarship and I was hoping you could help by
pointing me to some (seminal?) works that might help me formulate an
all-encompassing definition of technology (or a theoretical approach to
it), beyond ICTs?i.e. one that includes biometrics, information exchange
databases, but also material objects like drones, and/or one that addresses
both technology ?used by? as well as technology ?used on.?

Many thanks in advance,

Ana


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