Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology

by Nina Mollers (Editor), Bryan Dewalt (Editor)

Overview

The latest volume in the Artefacts series, Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology delves into globalization's various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original localized frames of meaning, these objects are resignified in new contexts, connected by the interplay of the global landscapes. Bringing together the methods and objects of study from anthropology and the history of technology, Objects in Motion explores the technological, cultural, and political dimensions of globalization in the past and the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935623977
Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication date:	08/09/2016
Series:	Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology , #10
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Bryan Dewalt is the Director of the Curatorial Division of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Nina Möllers is a Special Exhibition Project Curator at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany.

Table of Contents

Series Preface Martin Collins v

Introduction vi

Technology Transfers: East-West, North-South

Chapter 1 Globalizing Building Technique: The Centennial Hall in Wroclaw Knut Stegmann 2

Chapter 2 Heating the Groves: The Globalization of Agricultural Technology and the Acclimatization of Citrus in the USSR, 1928-1936 Johanna Conterio 22

Chapter 3 Swabian Water Treatment Technology in Russia: A Case Study of International Knowledge and Technology Transfer between West and East in the Late 1960s Thomas Schuetz 36

Chapter 4 Canada, Communism, and the Colombo Plan David McGee Rian Manson 46

Chapter 5 Inkonvensional Pathways: Soldered Supply Chains from Indonesia's Tin Islands Matthew Hockenberry 66

Dimensions of Globalization: Objects and Identities

Chapter 6 Local Makers, Global Players: Tabla Manufacture and Design in a Global Marketplace P Allen Roda 80

Chapter 7 Electric Turkish Coffee Makers: Capturing Authenticity for Global Markets Harun Kaygan 92

Chapter 8 Canoes, Identity, and Globalization: The Story of Bill Mason's Camera Case Bryan Dewalt 112

Chapter 9 A Bulldog Travels around the World: Global Perspectives on the Tractor Production of IIeinrich Lanz and John Deere in Mannheim, circa 1921-1965 Oliver Schmidt 130

Chapter 10 Technology Heritage Online: A Review of the Digital Museum Inventing Europe Kimberly Coulter 148

About the Contributors 159

Index 161