Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice by Jean Lave (English) Paperbac

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Interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of the author's research on those tailors in the late 1970s. This title shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows.

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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.

Author Biography

Jean Lave is professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology, Geography, and Education. She is the author or editor of many books, including Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday Life.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Thomas P. Gibson Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Apprenticeship and Critical Practice 2 Institutional Arrangements and the Uniform 3 Becoming a Tailor 4 Testing Learning Transfer 5 Multiplying Situations 6 Research on Apprenticeship, Research as Apprenticeship Notes References Index

Review

"This is a fascinating and brilliant book that chronicles Lave's career-long effort to escape the dualistic logics that constrain social analysis and to come to terms with what it means to recognize that context is everything. As Lave compels and challenges us to rethink and redo pretty much everything we have been doing as social analysts so far, we find that we have to dispense with more than a few of our tried and true concepts." (Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine)"

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"Where once the claim 'scientific evidence shows' was used to bolster dubious assertions, more recently 'ethnographic evidence shows' has provided an alternative claim of rigor. Now comes Lave's study of critical ethnographic practice to help us understand what ethnographic rigor entails, under what conditions claims supported by ethnographic evidence are justifiable, and why so often they are not. Lave's earlier work on communities of practice has had an influence far beyond the field of anthropology, and if there is any justice in the world, this work should follow the same trail, providing integrity where it has so often been wanting."

Details ISBN0226470725 Author Jean Lave Short Title APPRENTICESHIP IN CRITICAL ETH Language English ISBN-10 0226470725 ISBN-13 9780226470726 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2011 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations 5 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings, 4 tables UK Release Date 2011-04-30 Publication Date 2011-04-30 AU Release Date 2011-04-30 NZ Release Date 2011-04-30 US Release Date 2011-04-30 Pages 216 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 306.36 Audience Undergraduate Series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series We've got this

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