Memory Practices in the Sciences - Table of Contents

February 2006
6 x 9, 273 pp., 19 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-02589-2
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978-0-262-02589-8

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Memory Practices in the Sciences
Geoffrey C. Bowker

	Acknowledgments	ix

	Introduction Sample Chapter - Download PDF (146 KB)	1

1	Synchronization and Synchrony in the Archive: Geology and the 1830s	35

2	The Empty Archive: Cybernetics and the 1960s	75

3	Databasing the World: Biodiversity and the 2000s	107

4	The Mnemonic Deep: The Importance of an Unruly Past	137

5	The Local Knowledge of a Globalizing Ethnos	201

	Conclusion	223

	References	231

	Inside Technology	255

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (46 KB)	257

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