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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology)
Sorting Things Out Classification and Its Consequences - Inside Technology
Author: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of informa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262522953
ISBN-10: 0262522950
Publication Date: 8/28/2000
Pages: 389
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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