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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Author: Jean Lave Edition: Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0226470725 Price: You Save: 24%
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
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.Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice review. 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 importantRead full reviews of apprenticeship in critical ethnographic practice lave, jean.
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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice UCHIC 9780226470719 09780226470719
author jean lave format paperback language english publication year 01 04 2011 series lewis henry morgan lecture series subject social sciences subject 2 social sciences textbooks study guides title apprenticeship in critical ethnographic practice author lave jean publisher univ of chicago pr publication date apr 15 2011 pages 232 binding paperback dimensions 5 98 wx 8 90 hx 0 55 d isbn 0226470725 subject social science anthropology cultural description in this extended meditation jean lave in
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226470726 : 0226470725 : 30 Apr 2011 : 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 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.
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