Apprenticeship: From Theory to Method and Back Again

By Coy, Michael W. Coy, Michael W.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400603
• ISBN13: 9780791400609
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.