André Leroi-Gourhan: André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: A Selection of Texts and..., Gebunden
André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s
- A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s
- Publisher:
- Nathan Schlanger
- Translation:
- Nils F. Schott
- Publisher:
- Bard Graduate Center, 06/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781941792148
- Item number:
- 8836672
- Volume:
- 350 Pages
- Weight:
- 381 g
- Format:
- 210 x 150 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 11.6.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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.
