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Craftwork as Problem Solving Trevor H.J. Marchand

Craftwork as Problem Solving By Trevor H.J. Marchand

Craftwork as Problem Solving by Trevor H.J. Marchand


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Craftwork as Problem Solving: Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making by Trevor H.J. Marchand

This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental factors that give rise to particular ways of problem solving. Presenting rich, textured ethnographic studies of craftspeople at work around the world, Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators themselves, and by the societies in which they work. With attention to local factors such as training regimes and formal education, access to tools, socialisation and cultural understanding, budgetary constraints and market demands, changing technologies and materials, and political and economic regimes, this book sheds fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in design and making, inventing and manufacturing, and cultivating and producing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and cultural geography, as well as to craftspeople with interests in creativity, skilful practice, perception and ethnography.

Craftwork as Problem Solving Reviews

'This important collection of writings on craft clearly establishes the value of foregrounding the artisan's perspective. Through close attention to the embodied dimension of skilled making, these essays succeed in that most difficult task of rendering tacit knowledge explicit. The result is a volume of fascinating case studies, which also constitute a paradigm for future research to follow.' Glenn Adamson, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

About Trevor H.J. Marchand

Trevor H.J. Marchand is Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Masons of Djenne and Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen, editor of Making Knowledge and co-editor of the Handbook of Social Anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Foreword, Introduction: Craftwork as Problem Solving, Part I Practical Problem Solving in Craft, Part II Social, Economic and Philosophical, Dimensions in the Problems of Craftwork, Afterword, Index

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GOR013450491
9780815346548
0815346549
Craftwork as Problem Solving: Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making by Trevor H.J. Marchand
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
20171218
286
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