K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Differences Between Car Country and Science and Technology
In our civilization, the ultimate form of knowledge is in theory theory itself. But you will see that there is abstraction. It's happened not only in ideas, but also in this very specific thing about car country. They abstract through doing through media. Say for example, when they making a chair, for example, that chair is a unique object as in that way, it's particular, but also it is representing that particular community. So these are the differences I try to introduce in the first chapter, non differences and comparing this with the science and technology in some of the forms of knowledge practices in science and technology.
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