Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan. Edited by John Singleton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 376 pp. $64.95.

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List of contributors Series foreword Preface Introduction: situated learning in Japan: our educational analysis John Singleton Part I. Actors, Artists and Calligraphers: Learning in the Traditional Arts: 1. Transmitting tradition by the rules: an anthropological interpretation of the iemoto system Robert J. Smith 2. The search for mastery never ceases: Zeami's classic treatises on transmitting the traditions of the no theatre J. Thomas Rimer 3. Education in the Kano school in nineteenth-century Japan: questions about the copybook method Brenda G. Jordan 4. Seven characteristics of a traditional Japanese approach to learning Gary DeCoker 5. Why was everyone laughing at me? Roles of passage for the kyogen child Jonah Salz Part II. Potters, Weavers, Mechanics, Doctors and Violinists: Learning in Artisanal Apprenticeship: 6. Learning to be an apprentice Bill Haase 7. Craft and art education in Mashiko pottery workshops John Singleton 8. Craft and regulatory learning in a neighborhood garage Kathryn Ellen Madono 9. Developing character in music teachers: a Suzuki approach Sarah Hersh and Lois Peak 10. Becoming a master physician Susan O. Long 11. Weaving the future from the heart of tradition: learning in leisure activities Millie Creighton Part III. Work and Community Socialization: Diversity in Learning Arrangements: 12. Moneyed knowledge: how women become commercial shellfish divers Jacquetta F. Hill and David W. Plath 13. The self-taught bureaucrat: Takahashi Koreikiyo and economic policy during the Great Depression Richard J. Smethurst 14. Learning at the public bathhouse Scott Clark 15. Growing up through matsuri: children's establishment of self and community identities in festival participation Saburo Morita Part IV. Appropriations of Cultural Practice: 16. Learning to swing: Oh Sadaharu and the pedagogy and practice of Japanese baseball William W. Kelly 17. Good old boy into alcoholic: Danshukai and learning a new drinking role in Japan Stephen R. Smith 18. Did an ox wander by here recently?: Learning Americanized Zen Maureen W. McClure 19. Learning to be learners: Americans working for a Japanese boss Jill Kleinberg Epilogue: Calluses: when culture gets under your skin David W. Plath Selected glossary General bibliography Index.

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