Apprenticeship: From Theory to Method and Back Again (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work) (SUNY series in the Anthropology of Work)

ISBN 10: 0791400611 / ISBN 13: 9780791400616

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Apprenticeship: From Theory to Method and Back Again (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work) (SUNY series in the Anthropology of Work)
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791400611
• ISBN 13: 9780791400616
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.