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Increases the understanding of the multiple meanings of crafting experiences by interrelating theories about crafting and technology from several different disciplines
Theorizes a variety of new frameworks about psychological, social and cultural aspects of crafting
Provides exemplary case studies of crafting that relate diverse pasts to the present
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Reconstructing Ancient Craft Practice Through Archaeology and Experiment
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Reconceptualizing Crafting and Identity
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Teaching, Learning, and Experiencing Crafts
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Socio-politics and the Changing Meanings of Crafting in Modern Societies
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About this book
This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that crafting in the present is useful in understanding crafting experiences and methods in the past, including experiments to reproduce ancient excavated objects, historical accounts of crafting methods and experiences, craft revivals, and teaching historical crafts at museums and schools.
Crafting in the World is unique in the diversity of its theoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to researching crafting, not just as a set of techniques for producing functional objects, but as social practices and technical choices embodying cultural ideas, knowledge, and multiple interwoven social networks. Crafting expresses and constitutes mental schemas, identities, ideologies, and cultures. The multiple meanings and significances of crafting are explored from a great variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, archaeology, sociology, education, psychology, women’s studies, and ethnic studies.
This book provides a deep temporal range and a global geographical scope, with case studies ranging from Europe, Africa, and Asia to the Americas and a global internet website for selling home crafted items.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Clare Burke
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Department of Sociology, Anthropology Social Work and Criminal Justice, Oakland University, Rochester Hills, USA
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
About the editors
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood is a Professor of Anthropology at Oakland University and an Associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She organized and chaired the first two conference symposia on gender research in historical archaeology at the 1989 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in the First Joint Archaeological Congress in Baltimore, and at the 1989 Chacmool Conference in Calgary, Canada (proceedings published 1991). Professor Spencer-Wood’s early feminist theorizing was also published in the 1992 Southern Illinois University Conference volume. She subsequently wrote feminist articles published in Historical Archaeology and the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, as well as book chapters, including those in volumes she edited for Springer, entitled The Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes (co-edited with Sherene Baugher), and Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crafting in the World
Book Subtitle: Materiality in the Making
Editors: Clare Burke, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65088-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65087-6Published: 19 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65088-3Published: 09 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 295
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage