"First You Must Master Pain": The Nature and Purpose of Apprenticeship

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-126

  Lancy, David F ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apprenticeship; Crafts; Ethnology; Formal versus informal education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870341535     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2012.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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