Archaeology and apprenticeship : body knowledge, identity, and communities of practice /
The chapters in this volume demonstrate how archaeology can benefit greatly from the understanding of the social dimensions of knowledge transfer. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature, to enrich the understanding...
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Table of Contents:
- Archaeology and apprenticeship : body knowledge, identity, and communities of practice / Willeke Wendrich
- Apprenticeship and the confirmation of social boundaries / Hélène Wallaert
- Social contexts of learning and individual motor performance / John L. Creese
- Knowledge transfer : the craftmen's abstraction / Harald Bentz Høgseth
- Placing ideas in the land : practical and ritual training among the Australian Aborigines / Simon Holdaway and Harry Allen
- Apprentice to the environment : hunter-gatherers and landscape learning / Marcy Rockman
- Lithic raw material availability and Palaeo-Eskimo novice flintknapping / S. Brooke Milne
- Apprenticeship and figured ostraca from the ancient Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina / Kathlyn M. Cooney
- Craft apprenticeship in ancient Greece : reaching beyond the masters / Eleni Hasaki
- Apprenticeship and learning from the ancestors : the case of ancient Urkesh / Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
- Types of learning in apprenticeship / Heather M.-L. Miller
- Writing craftsmanship? : vocabularies and notation systems in the transmission of craft knowledge / Lise Bender Jørgensen
- Recognizing knowledge transfer in the archaeological record / Willeke Wendrich.