Sillar, B;
(2010)
La Saisonnalité des Techniques (Benguigui, M, Trans.).
Techniques & Culture
(52-53)
90 - 119.
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Abstract
This paper discusses seasonal changes in technical activities as an example of how technologies are socially embedded. It argues that while some technological choices are partly a response to seasonal shifts in environmental conditions, seasonality also provides a rhythm to social life that has economic, political and ideological motivations and consequences. The seasonal availability of resources and the presence or absence of specific environmental conditions has repercussions that affect a wide range of technical activities, and this paper considers the relationship between agricultural production and craft activities in the Andean Highlands. Seasonal changes in the organisation of labour within Andean agricultural are also influential in the organisation of craft production, and communities with distinct craft specialisations play a major role in the maintenance of social relations and cultural understandings.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | La Saisonnalité des Techniques |
Location: | France |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://tc.revues.org/4799 |
Language: | French |
Additional information: | Issue edited by Ludovic Coupaye et Laurence Douny. Full text made available by kind permission of publisher |
Keywords: | Embedded Technologies, Seasonality, Labour Exchange, Craft Specialisation, Andes |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1312384 |
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