"Stealing Fire" will make you reflect on the intimate relationship between high technology & the image of the human body. Reynolds, an anthropologist who has worked in Silicon Valley, argues that high technology is organized by a constellation of myths, similar to those found in so-called primitive societies. He also shows that high-tech inventions are projections of a culturally constructed body image, called the symbolic body. The symbolic body sets the agenda for scientific research, determines the tools & techniques ...
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"Stealing Fire" will make you reflect on the intimate relationship between high technology & the image of the human body. Reynolds, an anthropologist who has worked in Silicon Valley, argues that high technology is organized by a constellation of myths, similar to those found in so-called primitive societies. He also shows that high-tech inventions are projections of a culturally constructed body image, called the symbolic body. The symbolic body sets the agenda for scientific research, determines the tools & techniques developed by industry, & selects the therapeutic programs endorsed by biomedicine. Delving into technological development during World War II, Reynolds shows that penicillin & the nuclear chain reaction are more easily explained as projections of an androcentric symbolic body than as rational applications of scientific theory. This book will interest readers in gender studies, conservation, social science, nuclear disarmament, industrial development, & the history of science.
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Very Good. Not Issued with a Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 278 pages, illlustrated. "In the new approach to human history presented in this book, the differences between "primitive" and "advanced" technologies, far from being facts of history demonstrated by science, are projections of the industrial world view onto the human past, and even such commonplace examples of progressive technological development as the steam engine can be shown, on closer analysis, to be highly selective readings of historical events." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, light wear to corners of book, else a nice clean tight copy.
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