Masons, tricksters and cartographers : comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indigenous knowledge / David Turnbull.
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TextSeries: Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicinePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- 9780203304587
- 1280023317
- 9781280023316
- 1135288216
- 9781135288211
- 9786610023318
- 661002331X
- Comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indigenous knowledge
- Knowledge, Sociology of
- Science -- Social aspects
- Technology -- Social aspects
- Science and civilization -- History
- Sociologie de la connaissance
- Sciences -- Aspect social
- Sciences et civilisation -- Histoire
- sociology of knowledge
- SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Knowledge, Sociology of
- Science and civilization
- Science -- Social aspects
- Technology -- Social aspects
- 306.45 22
- HM651 .T875 2000eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
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Ch. 1. 'On with the motley' : the contingent assemblage of knowledge spaces -- ch. 2. Talk, templates and tradition : How the masons built Chartres Cathedral without plans -- ch. 3. Tricksters and cartographers : maps, science and the state in the making of a modern scientific knowledge space -- ch. 4. Pacific navigation : an alternative scientific tradition -- ch. 5. Making malaria curable : extending a knowledge space to create a vaccine -- ch. 6. Messiness and order in turbulence research.
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and hetero.
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