Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives

by Wolff-Michael Roth

Book Overview

This volume presents the results of several studies involving scientists and technicians. The author describes and analyses the interpretation scientists volunteered given graphs that had been culled from an introductory course and textbook in ecology. He next reports on graph usage in three different workplaces based on his ethnographic research among scientists and technicians.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402013760
• ISBN13: 9781402013768
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.9"