1st Edition
Craftwork as Problem Solving Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making
Edited By Trevor H.J. Marchand
Copyright 2016
286 Pages
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Routledge
278 Pages
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Routledge
278 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental factors that give rise to particular ways of problem solving. Presenting rich, textured ethnographic... Read more
List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Foreword, Introduction: Craftwork as Problem Solving, Part I Practical Problem Solving in Craft, Part II Social, Economic and Philosophical, Dimensions in the Problems of Craftwork, Afterword, Index
Biography
Trevor H.J. Marchand is Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Masons of Djenne and Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen, editor of Making Knowledge and co-editor of the Handbook of Social Anthropology.
’This important collection of writings on craft clearly establishes the value of foregrounding the artisan's perspective. Through close attention to the embodied dimension of skilled making, these essays succeed in that most difficult task of rendering tacit knowledge explicit. The result is a volume of fascinating case studies, which also constitute a paradigm for future research to follow.’ Glenn Adamson, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
