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392 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780262522953
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 25 August 2000
Description
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include fainted in a bath, frighted, and itch); the identification...
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392 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780262522953
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 25 August 2000
Description
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include fainted in a bath, frighted, and itch); the identification...