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Craftwork as Problem Solving - Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making (Paperback)
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Craftwork as Problem Solving - Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making (Paperback)
Series: Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
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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 studies of craftspeople at work around
the world, Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent
practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in
which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators
themselves, and by the societies in which they work. With attention
to local factors such as training regimes and formal education,
access to tools, socialisation and cultural understanding,
budgetary constraints and market demands, changing technologies and
materials, and political and economic regimes, this book sheds
fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in
design and making, inventing and manufacturing, and cultivating and
producing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology,
sociology, and cultural geography, as well as to craftspeople with
interests in creativity, skilful practice, perception and
ethnography.
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