No.46 Japanease Civilization in the Modern World:X - Technology -

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Senri Ethnological Studies (SES)

No.46 Japanease Civilization in the Modern World:X - Technology -

March 30, 1998 Publication

Edited by Tadao Umesao, James R.Bartholomew, Shigeharu Sugita

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Contents

Preface

1. Editors

2. Keynote Address: Technology in the Comparative Study of Civilizations

Tadao Umesao

3. The Sections of Contemporary Technological Society

Shigeharu Sugita

4. A Categorization of Technologyand the History of Japanese Modern Technology

Hideto Nakajima

5. Paradigms of Modern Technology Reserch -On the Multiplicity of Dimensions and Meanings in the Sociotechnical Systems-

Robert Horres

6. Science and Technology as Cognitive Domains in Japan -A Comparative erspective-

James R.Bartholomew

7. Technology and Social Systems -Civilizations and Social and Cultural Characteristics of Technology-

Oita Akira

8. A case of "Faired" Technology Transfer -Land Survey Technology in Early Modern Japan-

Philip C.Brown

9. Comparative Perspectives upon the Introduction of Western Steamship Technology to Japan and China

Roger Greatrex

10. The Way Japan Jointed Mechanized Civlization

Toru Takamatsu

11. Production Technology: Set and Units -Mass Production Systems in Traditional Japanese Handicraft Manufacturing and the Contemporary Assemblage Industry

Tsuneyuki Morita

12. The Industrial Revolution and Technological Civilization

Toshio Kusamitsu

List of Contributors

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