Apprenticeship - From Theory to Method and Back Again

This book examines the phenomenon of apprenticeship by exploring it as a social, economic, and educational institution. Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia are offered. The authors also look at apprenticeship as a method in anthropological field research. Many of the contributors have apprenticed themselves in other-cultural settings, providing a unique marriage of subject and method in cross-cultural research. Esther N. Goody provides a summary look at learning, apprenticeship and the division of labor.

About the author

Michael W. Coy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael W Coy (Editor), Michael W. Coy (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.1989
• EAN: 9780791400616
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0061-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 447 g
• Series: Suny Series in the Anthropolog; Suny Series in the Anthropolog; Suny the Anthropology of Work
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology