Apprenticeship

Download or read book Apprenticeship written by Michael W. Coy and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-10-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenon of apprenticeship by exploring it as a social, economic, and educational institution. Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia are offered. The authors also look at apprenticeship as a method in anthropological field research. Many of the contributors have apprenticed themselves in other-cultural settings, providing a unique marriage of subject and method in cross-cultural research. Esther N. Goody provides a summary look at learning, apprenticeship and the division of labor.