Memo+15+Core+Categories

I plan on expanding my study to include other non-normative (which might be a better term than deviant?) social groups that made contributions to science and technology during the colonial period, primairly between 1600 and 1800 in the Americas and West Indies. Although I have not done much research into this possibility yet I am considering other criminal individuals/groups, indigenous peoples, as well as those who may accurately be referred to as "deviants" during this period.
 * Colonial Technoscience -**

Hopefully this project will demonstrate how it is that access to technology gave political and economic power to groups that are typically overlooked and marginalized. In addition to pirates, I think this category would also include cases of indigenous peoples gaining access to Western science/technology and and becoming more intergrated into Western society - which could be debatable argued as gaining more power or authority.
 * Access and Appropriation of Technology -**

I am not sure how much this will end up being a "core" category, since I think it will be difficult to do an internal study of the networks between historical indigenous and criminal social groups - I question whether or not the documentation exists. However, it may be possible to make inferences as to how certain tools/knowledge, which served as distinct markers, were dispersed.
 * Sociology of Knowledge -**