TY - BOOK AU - Lamy,Jérôme AU - Plutniak,Sébastien TI - The Transparency of Institutions. An Ethnography of Glassware in a Laboratory of Biology PY - 2016///. N1 - 67 N2 - This paper addresses two disciplinary expansion trends in social sciences: in sociology, by denying the distinction between human and non-human; in archaeology, relying on the objet-mémoire concept, which associates the ideas of social interaction and memory processes. We discuss them from an ethnographic study of the ordinary containers in a biology laboratory. The signs, drawn or engraved on their surface, are a proxy for a joint analysis of artifacts, textuality, institutionalization processes, and social stratification. Rather than such disciplinary expansions, we argue in favor of an ethnography based on the “cultural technology” trend UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2016-4-page-733?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -