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

Turnbull, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9057024993 ISBN 13: 9789057024993

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2000

Synopsis

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 thrugh 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 heterogeneous motleys.

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Review:

"This beautiful, passionate and inspiring book is essential reading for everyone interested in post colonialism and science and technology studies."
-John Law of History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz
"Turnbull is an innovative theorist and astute writer, and this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the ways knowledge practices work."
-Professor Donna Haraway of History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9057024993
• ISBN 13: 9789057024993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274