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Learning Craft Skills in C hina: Apprenticeship and Social Capital in an Artisan Community of Practice
Author(s) -
Gowlland Geoffrey
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01190.x
Subject(s) - craft , ethos , apprenticeship , handicraft , sociology , social capital , capital (architecture) , labour economics , economics , social science , political science , art , visual arts , law , linguistics , philosophy
This article discusses some of the consequences of collectivization and subsequent privatization of handicraft in C hina in the second half of the 20th century on ways of learning and modes of apprenticeship. It argues that, after the privatization of the ceramics workshops of D ingshu, J iangsu province, an ethos of sharing previously introduced by collectivization continues to determine the paths of transmission of practical knowledge and facilitates exclusion of access to knowledge from community outsiders.