What’s New? : A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation (Hardcover)

Introduction: what’s new about innovation?? 1. Innovation and the integration of sociocultural systems ?2. Pellaport? 3. Alternative technologies and socio-economic contexts of adaptation: a study of the coastal fishermen of Saurashtra in western India ?4. The genesis of coaxial field systems? 5. Dynamics of production intensification in precontact Hawaii? 6. The impact of Inca conquest on local technology in the Upper Montaro Valley, Peru? 7. Technological change as social rebellion? 8. Technological continuity and change among the Andrea peasants: opposition between local and global strategies ?9. Ignoring innovation?denying change: the role of iron and the impact of external influences on the transformation of Scandinavian societies 800?500 BC 10. The beginnings of pottery as an economic process? 11. The context of adoption of brass technology in northeastern Nigeria and its effects on the elaboration of culture? 12. Innovation theory made plain? 13. Modelling innovation and change? 14. Modelling the innovative component of social change? 15. Risk, perception, innovation? 16. Cultural transmission and cultural change

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