Writing a review of the cultural anthropology of time is something like reading Borges's (19a)
infinite" Book of Sand": as one opens this book, pages keep growing from it-it has no …

An organization theorist friend of mine told me how she had recently paid a friendly visit to
an anthropological meeting, only to find everyone there insisting on speaking to her very …

Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in
recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author …

Written by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian
anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of …

In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger,
computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is …

In this chapter we recast the central characteristics of historical realizations of apprenticeship
in terms of legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice. First, we discuss the …

This article investigates the use of visual artifacts to represent time. Timelines, or “Gantt
charts,” are widely used for scheduling, budgeting, and project management, and they are …

Connected by a computer telecommunications network, ninth-graders from eight high
schools scattered thousands of miles across Alaska work together, building a robot …

Time-use refers to the amount of time spent working and how that time is allocated over a
particular period. A growing number of scholars are considering how social context …

Full-time virtual schools problematize what it means to 'attend'school. Is it the length of time a
child is logged on to the school's software system (regardless of the amount of work done) …