Technology and Cultural Tectonics Shifting Values and Meanings
What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.
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Technology and Cultural Tectonics Shifting Values and Meanings F. Allan Hanson
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL TECTONICS
Copyright © F. Allan Hanson, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-34201-0
All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-137-33836-5 (eBook) ISBN 978-1-349-46524-8 DOI 10.1057/9781137338365
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To Louise, who agitated the follicles
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Chapter 1 The Technological Society
1
Chapter 2 Honor Thy Father(s) and Thy Mother(s)
11
Chapter 3 All in the Family
39
Chapter 4 Prenatal Testing and Its Discontents
59
Chapter 5 The Frozen and the Dead
75
Chapter 6 Time and Identity
101
Chapter 7 Thinking in a New Key
121
Chapter 8 Scales of Time and Space
139
Chapter 9 Expansions
153
Notes
165
Bibliography
171
Index
185
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Acknowledgments
O
ne of the pleasures of writing a book is the opportunity to thank those institutions and persons who lent their assistance in various ways. In the first category is my own University of Kansas, for a 2011 sabbatical leave that enabled me to build the necessary momentum for research and manuscript preparation. Numerous people are in the second category. Melanie Thernstrom gave me further information about the family she is building around her “twiblings.” Wendy Kramer shared her thoughts on donor siblings, gained from her experiences in managing the Donor Sibling Registry. Four or five mothers who have used that and other websites to make contact with others who have had children from the sperm of the same donor very considerately answered my many questions and on occasion entered into extensive email discussions with me. Adrienne Brown came to my Technology and Society class to describe her meeting with her half sister (from the same anonymous donor) and answered a number of follow-up questions I posed later. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev helped me work through some of the complexities of suits for wrongful life in Israel, and Mike Neuenschwander discussed with me his ideas for a limited liability persona. Mike Kaut
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