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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bowker, Geoffrey C. Memory practices in the sciences. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)664547029 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Geoffrey C Bowker |
| ISBN: | 0262025892 9780262025898 |
| OCLC Number: | 60776866 |
| Description: | xi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Synchronization and synchrony in the archive : geology and the 1830s -- The empty archives : cybernetics and the 1960s -- Databasing the world : biodiversity and the 2000s -- The mnemonic deep : the importance of an unruly past -- The local knowledge of a globalizing ethnos. |
| Series Title: | Inside technology. |
| Responsibility: | Geoffrey C. Bowker. |
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--Howard S. Becker, author of "Art Worlds" and "Outsiders" --John Leslie King, Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan " With a sharp new perspective grounded firmly in a deep knowledge of both the natural and social sciences, Bowker reimagines the ancient topic of memory, showing us how our physical and social practices shape what we remember and thus what we know." --Howard S. Becker, author of "Art Worlds" and "Outsiders" " 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 all who do science or want to understand it--a real tour de force." --John Leslie King, Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan & quot; With a sharp new perspective grounded firmly in a deep knowledge of both the natural and social sciences, Bowker reimagines the ancient topic of memory, showing us how our physical and social practices shape what we remember and thus what we know.& quot; --Howard S. Becker, author of Art Worlds and Outsiders & quot; 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 all who do science or want to understand it--a real tour de force.& quot; --John Leslie King, Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan "With a sharp new perspective grounded firmly in a deep knowledge of both the natural and social sciences, Bowker reimagines the ancient topic of memory, showing us how our physical and social practices shape what we remember and thus what we know."--Howard S. Becker, author of "Art Worlds" and "Outsiders" "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 all who do science or want to understand it--a real tour de force."--John Leslie King, Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan Read more...
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