Andr? LeroiGourhan on Technology, Evolution, an A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s
Andr? Leroi?gourhan
ISBN 10: 1941792146 ISBN 13: 9781941792148
Published by Bard Graduate Center, 2025
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A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English for the first time.
André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology and archaeology. In France, his intellectual importance rivals that of the Claude Lévi-Strauss, yet Leroi-Gourhan’s major contributions are almost entirely unknown in the Anglophone world. This collection seeks to change that. This selection highlights some of his chief influences, such as elaborating a theory of technology, which argues that material culture focuses on the object in use and how use is a dynamic feature that has specific consequences for human evolution and human society. With serious ramifications for our understanding of material culture, putting Leroi-Gourhan’s thinking about technology into English will have an immediate and transformative impact on material culture studies.
About the Authors:
André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–86) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist.
Nils F. Schott is a lecturer in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, Reims.
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Title: Andr? LeroiGourhan on Technology, Evolution,...
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: HRD
Condition: New