play a crucial role in sustaining technopoles, it subordinates such factors
in a tale of economic heroism that engages my findings primarily in terms of
technical and economic productivity. In offering that reading alone, I would be
looking at my findings only within the framework of production, taking only samples
illustrative of arguments transplanted from other fields, and leaving vast swaths
untouched by the blade of my own analysis. While a focus on production might well
be appropriate, as an ethnographer, I saw that as a determination that could only be
made after more holistic consideration of the data. In other words—and this is the
most important limitation of the first objective—stopping with it would fail to
engage my research anthropologically
practices—