Inside anthropotechnology: user and culture centered experience

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- The evolution of anthropotechnology -- A gradual institutionalization -- Why then, in an intellectual context like this, as an ethnologist, do I continue to use the term "Anthropotechnology?" -- On the choices that allowed for the creation of this research laboratory 10 years ago -- Has this choice paid off? -- Opening -- Bibliography -- 1. Anthropotechnological Practice and Time Politics in the Development Industry -- 1.1. Conducting research about water allocation when there is no water -- 1.2. Time, power and cotemporalities -- 1.2.1. Ethnographic temporality -- 1.2.2. Bureaucratic temporality -- 1.3. Anthropotechnological temporalities: the Tanzanian case -- 1.3.1. The oMoMi project -- 1.3.2. Project genesis: when does a project begin? -- 1.3.3. Supported iterations -- 1.3.4. Productive cotemporality: simultaneity, crowdsourcing and FabLab fabrication -- 1.4. Conclusion: designing technologies based on user temporality -- 1.5. Bibliography -- 2. The Appropriation of Knowledge: An Anthropology of Transmission in the Context of Professional Training -- 2.1. The anthropotechnological approach to appropriation as a critique of the notion of transmission -- 2.2. Learning an industry -- 2.2.1. The "mechanical sense" as a way of knowing -- 2.2.2. Skilled vision or sight training -- 2.3. Transmission methods for the "mechanical sense" -- 2.3.1. Professional training beyond binary oppositions -- 2.3.2. The pedagogy of concealment -- 2.3.3. Objects as transfer vectors of the profession -- 2.4. A theory of transmission as appropriation and transformation -- 2.5. Bibliography -- 3. At the Heart of the Sensibility: The "Profane" Gold of Madre de Dios -- 3.1. Prologue -- 3.2. Context: the challenge of a perceived nature -- 3.3. The scene: a humid and slippery topography