The Churning of the World. Studies in Anthropology of Techniques in India.
Le Barattage du monde. Essais d'anthropologie des techniques en Inde.
Résumé
A collection of 14 case studies bearing on identification of tools, churning, cow-dung, pottery, millet, milk products, raw sugar, tobacco, opium, rooted in years of fieldworks in several regions of India, this book aims to unfold the complexity, the social and intellectual dimensions of techniques and skills, and to give them their right place in the cultural and social life of human beings.