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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791400603 ISBN 13: 9780791400609

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1989

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791400603
• ISBN 13: 9780791400609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Coy Michael W.