New advances in French prehistory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3469740
AutoresFrançoise Audouze (0000-0002-7646-1642, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume73
Fascículo279
Páginas167-175
Data de publicação1999-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00087986
OpenAlexW2485973745
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas18

The study of technology is long-standing in France, with its roots in the Enlightenment. Since then, French technological studies have exhibited divergent characteristics: a search for universal principles and a deep interest in the material and physical details of technology, the role of the craftsman and his skill. Technology is considered a mediator between Nature and Culture, material and social. The 1950s were marked by a renewal of this debate mainly through the work of two social anthopologists (Leroi-Gourhan and Haudricourt), a historian (Gilles) and a philosopher of technology (Simondon). All looked for general principles in order to explain the evolution of technology and its place in society. Apart from Haudricourt, who emphasized social relations, all stressed the autonomy of the technical realm and its quasi-biological development

History of technology · Realm · Social evolution