Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Lave, Jean/ Gibson Lave, Lave Jean
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780226470726
• ISBN: 978-0-226-47072-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (P; Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series; Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (P; The Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series (CHUP)
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Liberia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies