Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Modernity and its Problems......Page 10
Decentring Science and Curing Somnambulism......Page 12
Of Pawpaws and Cabbages, Roses and Nettles......Page 15
Science as Practice......Page 17
The Structure of the Book......Page 22
Notes......Page 24
Comparing Knowledge Traditions......Page 28
The Anasazi......Page 30
The Inca......Page 35
Australian Aborigines......Page 42
Moving Local Knowledge......Page 47
Knowledge Assemblage......Page 50
The Local and the Global in Interaction......Page 54
Notes......Page 56
Bringing Chartres into the Present......Page 64
(Re)constructing Chartres......Page 67
The Question of Plans......Page 71
Talk, Tradition and Templates......Page 75
Cathedrals as Laboratories......Page 78
Construction with Geometry and String......Page 80
Form and Function......Page 83
Theory and Practice......Page 87
The Technoscientific Knowledge Space Coproduced with Cathedrals......Page 89
From Master Mason to Architect......Page 91
Notes......Page 93
3 TRICKSTERS AND CARTOGRAPHERS: MAPS, SCIENCE
 AND THE STATE IN THE MAKING OF A MODERN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SPACE......Page 100
Being a Trickster......Page 101
Maps as the ‘Hard Case’......Page 103
Maps and the Modern Mind......Page 104
Maps as Scientific Theories......Page 105
The Suppressed Question......Page 108
Maps as Lies......Page 110
Was There a Cartographic Revolution?......Page 112
The First Attempt at Map Assemblage......Page 116
Disciplining the Master Map......Page 119
A Fifth Continent?......Page 122
Bringing the World Back Home......Page 124
The World on the Third Floor......Page 125
Tying France Together......Page 126
France and England Bound as One......Page 131
Cook Adrift......Page 133
Notes......Page 135
Speaking of Others’ Knowledge......Page 142
Undoing the Great Divide......Page 143
Calculation v. Orientation......Page 144
Star Compass and Etak—A Dynamic Cognitive Map......Page 147
Navigation as Strategy......Page 152
Discovery: Accidental or Deliberate?......Page 154
Open or Closed?......Page 159
Canoes—The Key Technological Device......Page 160
Writing Reconsidered......Page 162
Knowledge Transmission and Access......Page 164
Notes......Page 169
5 MAKING MALARIA CURABLE: EXTENDING A KNOWLEDGE SPACE TO CREATE A VACCINE......Page 174
Disciplining the Definition......Page 175
Molecular Biology’s Agenda and the Problems of Messiness......Page 180
A Vaccine for PNG......Page 183
Are There Alternatives?......Page 185
Notes......Page 190
Disorder, Order, Collective Work and Assemblages......Page 196
Complexity in Turbulence......Page 199
External Coherence and the Ordering of Turbulence......Page 204
Internal Coherence and the Ordering of Turbulence......Page 205
Simulation versus Experimentation......Page 210
Moving Local Knowledge Out of the Lab......Page 218
Notes......Page 219
Public Knowledge and the Knowledge of the Public......Page 224
Rationality, Universality and SSK......Page 225
Relativism and Reflexivity......Page 231
Approaching the Transmodern: The Possibility of a Third Space......Page 242
Notes......Page 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 248
Index......Page 274