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Knowledge in Motion : Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place /

"This book brings together archaeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists to explore communities engaged in a range of practices, from spiritual mediums in east Africa, healers and fishermen in the Amazon, potters of the U.S. Southwest, and populations navigating climate change in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Roddick, Andrew P. (Editor ), Stahl, Ann Brower, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Knowledge in motion / Andrew P. Roddick and Ann B. Stahl
  • Chapter 1.
  • The world is like a beanstalk: historicizing potting practice and social relations in the Niger River area / Olivier P. Gosselain
  • Chapter 2.
  • Secrecy, production rights, and practice within communities of potters in the prehispanic American Southwest / Patricia L. Crown
  • Chapter 3.
  • Glass bead and constellations of practice / Elliot H. Blair
  • Chapter 4.
  • Scalar relations: a juxtaposition of craft learning in the Lake Titicaca basin / Andrew P. Roddick
  • Chapter 5.
  • Finding connections along the river in the Lower Amazon, Brazil / Mark Harris
  • Chapter 6.
  • Crafting life in turbulent times: communities of practice in the western Volta Basin from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century A.D. / Ann B. Stahl
  • Chapter 7.
  • Pythons worked: constellating communities of practice with conceptual metaphor in northern Victoria Nyanza, ca. 800 to 1200 C.E / David Schoenbrun
  • Chapter 8.
  • Communities of consumption: cuisines as constellated networks of situated practice / Barbara J. Mills
  • Chapter 9.
  • A constellation of practice in the experience of sea-level rise / Kenneth E. Sassaman.