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Blacksmith at work, Nuremberg c. 1606 The anthropology of technology (AoT) is a unique, diverse, and growing field of study that bears much in common with kindred developments in the sociology and history of technology: first, a growing refusal to view the role of technology in human societies as the irreversible and predetermined consequence of a given technology's putative "inner logic"; and ...
Bruno Latour (French:; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. [5] He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). [6]
Diana Elizabeth Forsythe (November 11, 1947 – August 14, 1997) was a leading researcher in anthropology and a key figure in the field of science and technology studies. [1] She is recognized for her significant anthropological studies of artificial intelligence and informatics, as well as for her studies on the roles of gender and power in ...
Leaving the sphere of historical religions, the ritual-from-myth approach often sees the relationship between myth and ritual as analogous to the relationship between science and technology. The pioneering anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor is the classic exponent of this view. [6] He saw myth as an attempt to explain the world: for him, myth ...
Digital anthropology is the anthropological study of the relationship between humans and digital-era technology. The field is new, and thus has a variety of names with a variety of emphases. These include techno-anthropology, [1] digital ethnography, cyberanthropology, [2] and virtual anthropology. [3]
The essay was first published in American Biology Teacher in 1973. [ 1 ] Dobzhansky first used the title statement, in a slight variation, in a 1964 presidential address to the American Society of Zoologists , "Biology, Molecular and Organismic", to assert the importance of organismic biology in response to the challenge of the rising field of ...
Jonathan Mitchell Marks (born February 8, 1955) is a professor of biological anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.He is known for his work comparing the genetics of humans and other apes, and for his critiques of scientific racism, biological determinism, and what he argues is an overemphasis on scientific rationalism in anthropology.
Forensic anthropology is the application of the science of physical anthropology and human osteology in a legal setting, most often in criminal cases where the victim's remains are in the advanced stages of decomposition. A forensic anthropologist can assist in the identification of deceased individuals whose remains are decomposed, burned ...