Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

by David Turnbull

Book Overview

In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space thrugh the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9057024993
• ISBN13: 9789057024993
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"