Farquhar, Judith (Author)
Sunder Rajan, Kaushik (Author)
The articles in this collection were presented at the third conference in a series of conferences under the broad rubric “knowledge/value.” This conference, held at the University of Chicago's Beijing Center, was on the topic “Information, Databases, and Archives.”1 The articles collected here, all reporting on research in Asia, focus on the forms through which collective and public knowledge is rendered as information of a systematic, comparable, and collectively useful kind. Information models and metaphors that have become hegemonic in molecular biology are accompanied in the contemporary era by the botanical and zoological databases of the environmental sciences, by digital humanities analyses of writing, and by artificial intelligence systems that help users manage an excess of knowledge and put .it to partial use. By virtue of new information-management technologies, multiple archives accumulated in diverse histories are ever more accessible to some users, while at the same time the very structure of our retrieval tools buries some elements of these archives ever more deeply in obscurity. The ways in which tools such as databases generate new knowledge within the constraints of market and government agendas is an important aspect of a global “informationalization” process that is far advanced, perhaps especially in India and China. The articles in this issue explore some of the new terrains of knowledge revealed in these processes.
...MoreArticle Gaudilliére, Jean-Paul (2014) An Indian Path to Biocapital? The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, Drug Patents, and the Reformulation Regime of Contemporary Ayurveda. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 391-415).
Article Farquhar, Judith; Lai, Lili (2014) Information and Its Practical Other: Crafting Zhuang Nationality Medicine. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 417-437).
Article Fish, Allison (2014) Authorizing Yoga: The Pragmatics of Cultural Stewardship in the Digital Era. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 439-460).
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Bourke, Joanna;
(2014)
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
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Hollin, Gregory;
(2014)
Constructing a Social Subject: Autism and Human Sociality in the 1980s
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McCray, Patrick;
(2012)
From L5 to X Prize: California's Alternative Space Movement
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Book
Joe Kember;
John Plunkett;
Jill A. Sullivan;
(2012)
Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910
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Article
Lu, Di;
(2014)
Ancient Chinese People’s Knowledge of Macrofungi during the Period from 220 to 589
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Lightman, Bernard V.;
(2013)
The Circulation of Knowledge between Britain, India, and China: The Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century
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Asko Parpola;
(2013)
Beginnings of Indian Astronomy with Reference to a Parallel Development in China
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Sarma, Nataraja;
(2000)
Diffusion of astronomy in the ancient world
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Chapter
Karine Chemla;
(2017)
Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Case Study Based on Mathematical Sources from Ancient China
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Article
Harrison, Henrietta;
(2013)
Popular Responses to the Atomic Bomb in China 1945--1955
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Chapter
Brock, Darryl E.;
(2013)
The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line
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Book
Jeffrey Jaynes;
(2016)
Christianity Beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps
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Chapter
Druml, Thomas;
(2009)
Functional Traits in Early Horse Breeds of Mongolia, India and China from the Perspective of Animal Breeding
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David Brown;
Jonathan Ben-Dov;
(2018)
The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
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Gauhar Raza;
Zhongguo ke pu yan jiu suo;
(2011)
Constructing Culture of Science: Communication of Science in India and China
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Liliane Pérez;
François Jarrige;
(2022)
Claude Pierre Molard, 1759-1837 - Un technicien dans la cité
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Cardoso de Matos, Ana;
Gouzévitch, Irina;
C., Lourenço Mart;
Lourenço, Marta C.;
(2010)
Expositions universelles, musées techniques et société industrielle
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Mikihito Tanaka;
(2015)
Agenda Building Intervention of Socio-Scientific Issues: A Science Media Centre of Japan Perspective
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Terzian, Sevan G.;
(2015)
Corporate Science Education: Westinghouse and the Value of Science in Mid-Twentieth Century America
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Rebekah Higgitt;
(2017)
Challenging Tropes: Genius, Heroic Invention, and the Longitude Problem in the Museum
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