Elements for an Anthropology of Technology

Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Foreword, by John D. Speth
Preface
Chapter 1. Technology and Anthropology
	Introduction
	The What and Why of an Anthropology of Technological Systems
	Classical Anthropological Approaches to Technology
	Economic Anthropology and Technological Systems: A One-Sided Approach
	A Complementary Approach
Chapter 2. From Field to Files: Description and Analysis of Technical Phenomena
	Operational Sequences: The Basic Data
	What and How to Classify
Chapter 3. Arbitrariness in Technologies
	Social Representation of Technologies Among the Anga
	A Glance at Airplanes: Arbitrary Choices in So-Called High-Tech Society
Chapter 4. Social Representation of Technologies
	Technological Traits as Signs
	Style and Function
	Style Without Function?
	Technology and Information
	Excesses of the Cambridge School
Chapter 5. Conclusions: Toward a Study of Social Representations of Technology
	Back to the Anga Case
Notes
References Cited