The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work

Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England

Trevor H. J. Marchand (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

482 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-313-9 (ISBN)

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Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.

Trevor H. J. Marchand is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Rivers Memorial Medal. He is also a trained architect (McGill University) and qualified as a fine woodworker at London’s Building Crafts College. Marchand has conducted fieldwork with craftspeople around the world and published extensively, including the monographs Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen (Routledge, 2001) and The Masons of Djenné (Indiana, 2009).

List of Figures

Preface: Toiling to Live

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Pursuit of Pleasurable Studies with Woodworkers

Chapter 1. An Anthropologist’s Journey into Craftwork & Apprenticeship

Chapter 2. The Carpenters’ Company & Early London Apprenticeships

Chapter 3. The Building Crafts College: a history

Chapter 4. Getting Started

Chapter 5. Crafting Craftspeople

Chapter 6. Vocational Migrants to Craftwork

Chapter 7. The Intelligent Hand

Chapter 8. Problem Solving at the Bench

Chapter 9. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits

Chapter 10. Skill and Ageing

Epilogue: Towards a Hands-on Curriculum

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-313-8 / 1805393138
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-313-9 / 9781805393139
Zustand	Neuware