The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation

Charbonneau, Mathieu

The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-03-19
  • 售價: $2,360
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 308
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547805
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547802

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A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions.

Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques, edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and rigidity on how techniques are used, transformed, and reconstructed, at varying social and temporal scales. The multidisciplinary contributors demonstrate the important role of the varied learning contexts and social configurations involved in the transmission, use, and evolution of techniques. They explore the diversity of cognitive, behavioral, sociocultural, and ecological mechanisms that promote and constrain technical flexibility and rigidity, proposing a deeper picture of the enablers of, and obstacles to, technical transmission and change.

In line with the extended evolutionary synthesis, the book proposes a more inclusive and materially grounded conception of technical evolution in terms of promiscuous, dynamic, and multidirectional causal processes. Offering new evidence and novel theoretical perspectives, the contributors deploy a diversity of methods, including ethnographies, field and laboratory experiments, cladistics and phylogenetic tree building, historiography, and philosophical analysis. Examples of the wide range of topics covered include field experiments with potters from five cultures, stability and change in Paleolithic toolmaking, why children lack flexibility when making tools, and cultural techniques in nonhuman animals.

The volume's three thematic sections are:
- Timescales of technical rigidity and flexibility
- Rigid copying to flexible reconstruction
- Exogenous factors of technical rigidity and flexibility

The volume closes with a discussion by philosopher Kim Sterelny.

Contributors
Rita Astuti, Adam Howell Boyette, Blandine Bril, Josep Call, Mathieu Charbonneau, Arianna Curioni, Nicola Cutting, Bert De Munck, György Gergely, Anne-Lise Goujon, Ildikó Király, Catherine Lara, Sébastien Manem, Luke McEllin, Helena Miton, Giulio Ongaro, Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Valentine Roux, Manon Schweinfurth, Dan Sperber, Kim Sterelny, Dietrich Stout, James W. A. Strachan, Sadie Tenpas

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本新穎的跨學科探索，關於剛性和靈活性在技術傳統的採用、維持和演化中的相對貢獻。技術可以以剛性、刻板的方式使用，也可以以靈活適應的方式使用，或者兩者結合。《技術的演化》由Mathieu Charbonneau編輯，探討了靈活性和剛性對技術的使用、轉變和重建的影響，以及不同社會和時間尺度上的影響。多學科的貢獻者們展示了在技術的傳播、使用和演化中所涉及的多樣化的學習背景和社會配置的重要角色。他們探索了促進和限制技術靈活性和剛性的多樣化的認知、行為、社會文化和生態機制，提出了更深入的技術傳播和變革的促進因素和障礙的圖景。與擴展的演化綜合理論一致，本書提出了一個更包容和物質基礎的技術演化概念，涉及到多樣化的、動態的和多方向的因果過程。貢獻者們提供了新的證據和新的理論觀點，並運用了多種方法，包括民族志學、田野和實驗室實驗、分類學和親緣樹建構、歷史學和哲學分析。涵蓋的主題範圍廣泛，包括與五個文化的陶工進行的田野實驗、舊石器時代工具製作的穩定性和變化、兒童在製作工具時缺乏靈活性的原因，以及非人類動物的文化技術。本書的三個主題部分分別是：技術剛性和靈活性的時間尺度、從剛性複製到靈活重建、技術剛性和靈活性的外在因素。本書以哲學家Kim Sterelny的討論作為結尾。貢獻者包括：Rita Astuti、Adam Howell Boyette、Blandine Bril、Josep Call、Mathieu Charbonneau、Arianna Curioni、Nicola Cutting、Bert De Munck、György Gergely、Anne-Lise Goujon、Ildikó Király、Catherine Lara、Sébastien Manem、Luke McEllin、Helena Miton、Giulio Ongaro、Sarah Pope-Caldwell、Valentine Roux、Manon Schweinfurth、Dan Sperber、Kim Sterelny、Dietrich Stout、James W. A. Strachan、Sadie Tenpas。

作者簡介

Mathieu Charbonneau is Assistant Professor at the Faculté de Gouvernance, Sciences Économiques et Sociales at the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Morocco.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Mathieu Charbonneau是摩洛哥穆罕默德六世理工大學(Faculte de Gouvernance, Sciences Economiques et Sociales at the Universite Mohammed VI Polytechnique)的助理教授。

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