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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483276703321

Autore

Hasse Cathrine

Titolo

An Anthropology of Learning : On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies / / by Cathrine Hasse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9789401796064

9401796068

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

301

370

370113

371.3

Soggetti

Learning, Psychology of

Anthropology

Professional education

Vocational education

Instructional Psychology

Professional and Vocational Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- 1. Introducing the engaged anthropologist -- 2. Culture as contested field -- 3. Collective and social cultures -- 4. Position matters! -- 5. Social designations of cultural markers -- 6. Learning from culture contrast -- 7. Towards nested engagement -- 8. Future zones of development -- 9. Epilogue. Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the black box of social science methodology: participant observation. From the perspective of anthropology, it explores the difference between an ethnographer as participant observer and any other participant. It discusses and gives insight into what participant observers do before they write their texts. It explains how they learn to engage with other people’s cultural ecologies and develop relational expertise. Showing that anthropology is a craft of cultural learning processes, the book introduces the engaged



participant observer as an expert ethnographer capable of aligning engagements with others. It argues that culture as representation is replaced by culture as a frictioned learning process through which collective and social cultures emerge. To advance understanding of the ethnographer’s learning process, the book introduces a new methodological vocabulary of cultural learning processes that is based on a diffracted reading of ethnography, anthropological theory, post-phenomenology, feminist materialism and cultural-historical activity theory.