Masons Tricksters and Cartographers

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Masons Tricksters and Cartographers

Author	: David Turnbull
File Size	: 41,5 Mb
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 September 2003
ISBN	: 9781135288204
Pages	: 277 pages

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Masons Tricksters and Cartographers by David Turnbull Book PDF Summary

In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space thrugh the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and heterogeneous motleys.

Masons Tricksters and Cartographers by David Turnbull

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Masons Tricksters and Cartographers by David Turnbull

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