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Knowledge in Motion Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place / edited by Andrew P. Roddick and Ann B. Stahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amerind series in anthropology.
- Amerind series in anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communities of practice.
- Learning, Psychology of.
- Learning--Social aspects.
- Learning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book brings together archaeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists to explore communities engaged in a range of practices, from spiritual mediums in east Africa, healers and fishermen in the Amazon, potters of the U.S. Southwest, and populations navigating climate change in the deep past, drawing on the growing interdisciplinary situated learning scholarship to explore processes of learning"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Knowledge in motion / Andrew P. Roddick and Ann B. Stahl
- Chapter 1. The world is like a beanstalk: historicizing potting practice and social relations in the Niger River area / Olivier P. Gosselain
- Chapter 2. Secrecy, production rights, and practice within communities of potters in the prehispanic American Southwest / Patricia L. Crown
- Chapter 3. Glass bead and constellations of practice / Elliot H. Blair
- Chapter 4. Scalar relations: a juxtaposition of craft learning in the Lake Titicaca basin / Andrew P. Roddick
- Chapter 5. Finding connections along the river in the Lower Amazon, Brazil / Mark Harris
- Chapter 6. Crafting life in turbulent times: communities of practice in the western Volta Basin from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century A.D. / Ann B. Stahl
- Chapter 7. Pythons worked: constellating communities of practice with conceptual metaphor in northern Victoria Nyanza, ca. 800 to 1200 C.E / David Schoenbrun
- Chapter 8. Communities of consumption: cuisines as constellated networks of situated practice / Barbara J. Mills
- Chapter 9. A constellation of practice in the experience of sea-level rise / Kenneth E. Sassaman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-3374-1
- OCLC:
- 941061069
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