scispace - formally typeset
Open Access

Bruno Latour, Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d'anthropologie symétrique, Paris, La Découverte, 1991

Bernard Hours
- Vol. 109, Iss: 3, pp 132-134
Reads0
Chats0
About
The article was published on 1993-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 392 citations till now.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

The two and its many: Reflections on perspectivism in a Tupi cosmology

TL;DR: In this paper, the wild peccary hunt is used as the basis for an ethnographic essay on an indigenous notion of point of view applied to the field of relations between humans and animals in the cosmology of a Tupi people, the Juruna.
Journal ArticleDOI

‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People

TL;DR: The authors argue that attempts in this direction so far are generally compromised, because they fail to take Indigenous philosophies and intellectual contributions seriously, and that any concern with Indigenous material expressions, including so-called rock-art, has to involve a critical re-assessment of academic discourse itself and a challenge to the primacy of Western scientific and literary, academic methodologies.
Journal ArticleDOI

Cognitive Representations and Institutional Hybridity in Agrofood Innovation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine two innovation trajectories: (1) the rapid coupling of biotechnologies and information technologies to yield products differentiated by constituent components, and (2) the proliferation of product networks that mobilize distinctive, localized resources to create complete identities.
Journal ArticleDOI

Eine Soziologie ohne Objekt

TL;DR: In this paper, the object is introduced in the definition of society and shows how this can solve the conflict between "micro" and "macro" definitions of social order, and reflections questioning central paradigms in sociology, ethnomethodology and anthropology lead to a renewed conception of agency, action and actor.
Journal ArticleDOI

Legal and Technological Normativity: more (and less) than twin sisters

TL;DR: In this paper, the normative impact of technologies is investigated and compared with their normative impact on legal norms, arguing that a generic concept of normativity is needed that does not depend on the intention of whoever designed either a law or a technology.