Download PDF by Trevor H.J. Marchand: Craftwork as Problem Solving: Ethnographic Studies of Design

By Trevor H.J. Marchand

This quantity brings jointly a cross-disciplinary workforce of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and discover the variety and complexity of problem-solving strategies and techniques hired through craftspeople, including the most important social, cultural, and environmental components that supply upward thrust to specific methods of challenge fixing. providing wealthy, textured ethnographic stories of craftspeople at paintings world wide, Craftwork as challenge fixing examines the clever practices thinking about fixing numerous difficulties and the ways that those are perceived and evaluated either through makers and creators themselves, and by way of the societies within which they paintings. With awareness to neighborhood elements resembling education regimes and formal schooling, entry to instruments, socialisation and cultural realizing, budgetary constraints and marketplace calls for, altering applied sciences and fabrics, and political and fiscal regimes, this ebook sheds clean gentle at the multifarious varieties of intelligence concerned with layout and making, inventing and production, and cultivating and generating. As such, it is going to entice students of anthropology, sociology, and cultural geography, in addition to to craftspeople with pursuits in creativity, skilful perform, notion and ethnography.

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