Transient workspaces : (Record no. 73385)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6933271 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204829.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151223s2014 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262326155 |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | ebook |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | ebook |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
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| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 306.4/6096 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Transient workspaces : |
| Sub Title | technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xi, 296 pages) : |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. Mavhunga shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, he explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, Mavhunga considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. He describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, Mavhunga writes, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. He argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6933271 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | [2014] |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2014] |
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| -- | text |
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| -- | electronic |
| -- | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
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| 588 ## - | |
| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Subsistence hunting |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Poaching |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Material culture |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technology transfer |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Economic anthropology |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | Africa. |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | Zimbabwe. |
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