技术作为一种文化：跨文化研究的一种尝试

by Francesca Bray, 白馥兰, 董晓萍 (Translator)

作者摆脱“欧洲中心论”的视角，运用社会人类学、历史学和社会性别学的方法，从中国资料实际出发，开展综合研究，同时也对美国、英国、法国、德国、荷兰、比利时、印度和日本的技术史做了考察。作者在本书中主要讨论四个问题：房屋作为生活机器、亲密性技术、清洁卫生技术、手工业与机器工业技术，它们都根植于传统，也与现代人的技术观有联系。在此基础上，作者提出，跨文化分析是一种有效的工具，具有大的研究空间。对技术开展跨文化研究，可以创造性地思考技术在特定社会历史上下文中满足人文需求的样式，也可以分析技术超时间存在的文化驱动力。

197 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2022

About the author

Francesca Bray is a historian and anthropologist of science, technology and medicine, specialising in China. Bray is particularly interested in how politics are expressed and enacted through everyday technologies (with lots of work on technology, gender and the state), and in the politics underpinning different narratives about technology in national, comparative and global history. Bray has worked at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, UCLA, the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, then UC Santa Barbara and, since 2005, the University of Edinburgh.