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035 _a(CaBNVSL)mat06933271
035 _a(IDAMS)0b000064827f1237
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_beng
_erda
_cCaBNVSL
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050 4 _aGN645
_b.M3526 2014eb
082 0 4 _a306.4/6096
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100 1 _aMavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa,
_d1972-,
_eauthor.
_924433
245 1 0 _aTransient workspaces :
_btechnologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe /
_cClapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_c[2014]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2014]
300 _a1 PDF (xi, 296 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aIn 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.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650 0 _aSubsistence hunting
_zZimbabwe.
_924434
650 0 _aPoaching
_zZimbabwe.
_924435
650 0 _aMaterial culture
_zAfrica.
_924436
650 0 _aTechnology transfer
_zAfrica.
_924437
650 0 _aEconomic anthropology
_zAfrica.
_924438
651 7 _aAfrica.
_2fast
_924439
651 7 _aZimbabwe.
_2fast
_924440
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93294
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_924441
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_924442
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262027243
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6933271
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999 _c73385
_d73385