Apprenticeship in critical ethnographic practice / Jean Lave ; foreword by Thomas P. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lave, Jean.

Contributor:

Gibson, Thomas P.

Series:

Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1993.

The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1993

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vai (African people)--Social life and customs.

Vai (African people).

Gola (African people)--Social life and customs.

Gola (African people).

Tailors--Liberia--Apprentices.

Tailors.

Ethnology--Liberia.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world-and why it is so important.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Introduction: Apprenticeship and Critical Practice

2. Institutional Arrangements and the Uniform

3. Becoming a Tailor

4. Testing Leaming Transfer

5. Multiplying Situations

6. Research on Apprenticeship, Research as Apprenticeship

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613097613

9781283097611

1283097613

9780226470733

0226470733

OCLC:

721194450