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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous KnowledgeUser Review - lilly - GoodreadsThis book is mindblowingly cool. It begins with the thesis that knowledge (including that we call scientific) is really the processual assembly of local contingencies like geography, organizational ... Read full review Review: Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous KnowledgeUser Review - GoodreadsAbout maps and their relationship to power. How all knowledge is created in a distinct space, whether it's a literal geographic space or someplace more like a laboratory, established to control ... Related books
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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAboriginal achieved analysis Anasazi Archaeoastronomy architect architectural argues assembled Australian Bruno Latour building Cambridge University Press cartography century ceques chapter Chartres Chicago Press cognitive coherence complex construction contingent assemblage created criteria culture David Turnbull discovery essential etak example experimental Gladwin Gothic cathedrals hence heterogeneous historian History Ibid John Law knowledge space knowledge systems knowledge traditions laboratory labour London malaria vaccine maps master mason Medieval messy Micronesian modern nature organisation Pacific Islanders Pacific navigation paradigm parasite political portolan charts possible practice Princeton problem produced question quipu rationality recognise reflexive relativism representation science and technology scientific knowledge scientists Shapin Smits social strategies sociology of knowledge sociology of science sociology of scientific solutions spatial standardised Steven Shapin structure Studies of Science Susan Leigh Star technical devices techniques technoscience technoscientific technoscientific knowledge templates theory turbulence research understanding voyages Western science Bibliographic information
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