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Technology and Cultural Tectonics

Shifting Values and Meanings

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  • © 2013

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  1. F. Allan Hanson
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Technological Society

    • F. Allan Hanson
    Pages 1-9

  3. Honor Thy Father(s) and Thy Mother(s)

    • F. Allan Hanson
    Pages 11-37

  4. All in the Family

    • F. Allan Hanson
    Pages 39-58

  5. Prenatal Testing and Its Discontents

    • F. Allan Hanson
    Pages 59-73

  6. The Frozen and the Dead

    • F. Allan Hanson
    Pages 75-100

  7. Time and Identity

    • F. Allan Hanson
    Pages 101-120

  8. Thinking in a New Key

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    Pages 121-137

  9. Scales of Time and Space

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    Pages 139-151

  10. Expansions

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    Pages 153-163

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 165-188
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What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.

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F. Allan Hanson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA.

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