Technology and Social Agency (review)

Marcia-Anne Dobres brings historians and scholars in other disciplines up to date on the theories and research programs employed in the study of prehistoric technologies. Her central thesis is that technology studies are at a turning point in which new theories on the human condition are forcing scholars to abandon older views in favor of agency-centered perspectives. Specifically, Dobres argues for a framework for archaeology focusing on the human body as a conduit linking social and material practice

Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Forcing (mathematics) · Point (geometry) · Prehistory · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · History