Archaeology and apprenticeship : body knowledge, identity, and communities of practice / / edited by Willeke Wendrich

• Pubblicazione: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Ethnoarchaeology; Social archaeology; Apprenticeship programs - Sociological aspects; Material culture; Industries; Knowledge management; Communities of practice
• Altri autori: WendrichWilleke
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice - Willeke Wendrich -- 2. Apprenticeship and the Confirmation of Social Boundaries - Hélène Wallaert -- 3. Social Contexts of Learning and Individual Motor Performance - John L. Creese -- 4. Knowledge Transfer: The Craftmen's Abstraction - Harald Bentz Høgseth -- 5. Placing Ideas in the Land: Practical and Ritual Training among the Australian Aborigines - Simon Holdaway and Harry Allen -- 6. Apprentice to the Environment: Hunter-Gatherers and Landscape Learning - Marcy Rockman -- 7. Lithic Raw Material Availability and Palaeo-Eskimo Novice Flintknapping - S. Brooke Milne -- 8. Apprenticeship and Figured Ostraca from the Ancient Egyptian Village of Deir el-Medina - Kathlyn M. Cooney -- 9. Craft Apprenticeship in Ancient Greece: Reaching beyond the Masters - Eleni Hasaki -- 10. Apprenticeship and Learning from the Ancestors: The Case of Ancient Urkesh - Marilyn Kelly- Buccellati -- 11. Types of Learning in Apprenticeship - Heather M.- L. Miller -- 12. Writing Craftsmanship? Vocabularies and Notation Systems in the Transmission of Craft Knowledge - Lise Bender Jørgensen -- 13. Recognizing Knowledge Transfer in the Archaeological Record - Willeke Wendrich -- About the Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Archaeologists study a wide array of material remains to propose conclusions about non-material aspects of culture.The intricacies of these findings have increased over recent decades, but only limited attention has been paid to what the archaeological record can tell us about the transfer of cultural knowledge through apprenticeship.
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeology and apprenticeship
• ISBN: 0-8165-9930-0; 1-299-19203-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963817803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II