Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

Name: Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
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ISBN: 9780226470726

ISBN-10: 0226470725

ISBN-13: 9780226470726

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jean Lave

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In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Apprenticeship and Critical Practice



Institutional Arrangements and the Uniform



Becoming a Tailor



Testing Learning Transfer



Multiplying Situations



Research on Apprenticeship, Research as Apprenticeship


Notes


References


Index