Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism book by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber), Alicia Ory DeNicola

Language: English

Published by Routledge, 2016

1472594851 / 9781472594853

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> But it is less clear why an academic study of the apparently old-fashioned might be anything but quaint. We intend this book to put the study of craft front and center in anthropology and the wider social sciences by arguing that craft is a vital and fertile means to understand relationships between places, people, and time. Craft, like history, is a tool that people use to negotiate their roles and places within the material and social environment. The labor of craft work, the translation of craft export and design, and the material value of consumption all help those involved to "tell themselves" (Pucket 2000; Hensel 1996) in very different but often related and overlapping contexts Fully contemporary, craft and its underlying "tellings" transcend the collo- quial, the mundane, and the local, though perhaps our perceiving it as such is part of its significance as a meaningful trope This "telling," then, is what we are centrally interested in in Critical Craft We are less interested in defining craft (or e.…

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Title
Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism book by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber), Alicia Ory DeNicola
Author
Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber), Alicia Ory DeNicola
Publisher
Routledge
Publication year
2016
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Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Language
English
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9781472594853
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