Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice by Jean Lave

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice by Jean Lave

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Interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of the author's research on those tailors in the late 1970s. This title shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows.

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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice by Jean Lave

Interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of the author's research on those tailors in the late 1970s. This title shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows.
"This is a fascinating and brilliant book that chronicles Lave's career-long effort to escape the dualistic logics that constrain social analysis and to come to terms with what it means to recognize that context is everythingAs Lave compels and challenges us to rethink and redo pretty much everything we have been doing as social analysts so far, we find that we have to dispense with more than a few of our tried and true concepts." (Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine)"
Jean Lave is professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology, Geography, and Education. She is the author or editor of many books, including Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday Life.
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ISBN 13 9780226470726
ISBN 10 0226470725
Title Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Author Jean Lave
Series Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 2011-04-30
Number of pages 216
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