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Memory practices in the sciences
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Memory practices in the sciences

Author: Geoffrey C Bowker
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.
Series: Inside technology
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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How the way we hold knowledge about the past--in books, in file folders, in databases--affects the kind of stories we tell about that past.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Geoffrey C Bowker
ISBN: 9780262524896 0262524899 0262025892 9780262025898
OCLC Number: 474716096
Description: xi, 261 s. : ill.
Contents: Indhold: Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1: Synchronization and Synchrony in the Archive: Geology and the 1830s --
2: Th Empty Archive: Cybernetics and the 1960s --
3: Databasing the World: Biodiversity and the 2000s --
4: The Mnemonic Deep: The Importance of an Unruly Past --
5: Th Local Knowledge of a Globalizing Ethnos --
Conclusion.
Series Title: Inside technology
Responsibility: Geoffrey C. Bowker.

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"A brilliant and subtle analysis that uncovers and explains how conventions of naming, classifying, recording, and remembering create and preserve human knowledge. This book is required reading for Read more...

 
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