Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

by Jean Lave

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226470725
• ISBN13: 9780226470726
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"