ANTH 374 Readings (UIUC, Spr 2018)

NOTE: Readings are subject to change.

ANTH 374 Requirements (UIUC, Spr 2018)

Note: The Syllabus is a Living Document

This syllabus is a starting point for the course. It is subject to change as the term unfolds, in response to your feedback and my assessment of how things are going. I’ll be seeking out your…

Assignment 17Jan2018

COMPLETE the following by FRIDAY, 19Jan2018, 8:00PM CST

Anthropology of Science and Technology: Answering the “Why?”s of Science Funding

Why do some people use social media more than others? Why is one science labeled ‘hard’ and another labeled ‘soft’? Why do these people enter jobs with lots of technology more than other…

ANTH 374 Description (UIUC, Spr 2018)

ANTH 374 Anthropology of Science and Technology

SCOT and dominant Western influence: case of Jikji and moveable metal type

On my first lecture this week, the course theme was thinking about the fundamental definition of science and how science came to what we usually think today. Science has existed for many many years but…

Will Humans Eventually Allow Robots to take Most Human Jobs?

A top controversy in today’s world is the advancement of technology; yet, since the day technology was invented, this has always been a controversy. Michael J. Fischer mentioned in his article “Four genealogies for a…

Technology and Shame: The CCTV

The Anthropology Science and Technology is a fairly recent area of study, even more necessary now as such…

Change In Anthropology of Technology

The reading recounted the history of epistemological thought over the course of the last century or so. It explained how different social stimuli effected the way that people viewed scientific advancement.

Applications of Michael Fischer’s Research in Programming

Michael Fischer describes the history of technological anthropology in his article Four Genealogies of Recombinant Anthropology of Science and technology. He details the affects of object oriented languages and asserts that a key…