Class Id: 7887
Days: M
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: BURRH
Room: 213
Course Id: 3487
Departments and Numbers: ANT 433
Area: EC
Title: Initiation, Education, and Apprenticeship: Cross Cultural Perspectives
Description: From Brazilian capoeira, Japanese dance, and American jazz piano, to glassblowing, lawyering, and navigating a warship: how do people acquire the skills necessary to perform expert activities in different cultural settings? What kinds of knowledge can anthropologists gain as apprentices, and how does it translate into writing? This course focuses on apprenticeship as a subject and method for anthropological research. We examine theories of learning and their application to case studies of wide-ranging domains of expertise. Students conduct ethnographic and experiential activities, generating original data for discussion and analysis.
Prerequisites: Students should have background in anthropology or other social sciences.
Professors: Graham M. Jones
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