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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> But it is less clear why an academic study of the apparently old-fashioned might be anything but quaint. We intend this book to put the study of craft front and center in anthropology and the wider social sciences by arguing that craft is a vital and fertile means to understand relationships between places people and time. Craft like history is a tool that people use to negotiate their roles and places within the material and social environment. The labor of craft work the translation of craft export and design and the material value of consumption all help those involved to “tell themselves” (Pucket 2000; Hensel 1996) in very different but often related and overlapping contexts Fully contemporary craft and its underlying “tellings” transcend the collo- quial the mundane and the local though perhaps our perceiving it as such is part of its significance as a meaningful trope This “telling” then is what we are centrally interested in in Critical Craft We are less interested in defining craft (or even defining a subfield around the study of craft) and more interested in the ways that craft as a discourse (LL)