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HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage

HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage. Dr. Jamie Cross Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh. GLOBAL HISTORIES. 1954. Bell Laboratories, United States. 1954. HUMIDITY & THE TROPICS. ‘What to do with our new baby?’ - Daryl Chapin. 1949.

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HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage

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  1. HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage Dr. Jamie Cross Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh

  2. GLOBAL HISTORIES 1954 Bell Laboratories, United States

  3. 1954

  4. HUMIDITY & THE TROPICS

  5. ‘What to do with our new baby?’ - Daryl Chapin

  6. 1949 “We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.” - Harry S. Truman ‘DEVELOPMENT’

  7. ‘DEVELOPMENT’

  8. WEST AFRICA

  9. 1968 GONDEL, NIGER

  10. 1973 THE SAHEL

  11. 1973 CORSICA, FRANCE

  12. 1978 KONI & NABASSO, MALI

  13. THE FIELD LABORATORY

  14. DETERIORATION ORGANISATION

  15. “Technical objects have political strength…They may change social relationships but they also stabilize, naturalise, depoliticise and translate these into other media…technical objects build our history for us.” - Madelaine Akrich (1992) HISTORY, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

  16. THE 100th OBJECT

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