The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool : Philosophy, Archaeology and the Anthropology of Technology.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Ackowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond -- I.1 Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism -- I.2 French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the "process" -- Appendix to I.2: The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks -- I.3 Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture -- PART II -- Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology -- II.1 Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory -- II.2 The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel -- PART III -- The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool -- III.1 Heidegger's phenomenology or the tool as not a tool -- III.2 Hegel's tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity -- Epilogue -- References.

A critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture.

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