Trevor H J Marchand
Biographic Data
| ID | 80273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor H J Marchand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor H J |
| FAMILY NAME | Marchand |
| SIGNATURE | MARCHAND T H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Built Environment
The built environment can be defined as the combination of built structures and modified landscapes that support human life and livelihoods. It is made and continually remade and expanded through a dynamic mix of social interaction, competition, design and planning, physical labor, skilled craftsmanship, economic exchange, and cultural processes of place making and meaning making in the world. For all of these reasons, study of the built environm…
Embodied Learning
Social and cultural anthropology have, historically, relegated questions about human biology, physiology, bodily practice, and embodied learning to physical anthropology and the natural sciences. Marcel Mauss's essay on techniques of the body, however, presents a notable early exception that, along with challenges in philosophy to the mind/body dichotomy during the first half of the twentieth century, gradually generated dedicated interest in the…
Toward an anthropology of mathematizing
This essay investigates the practical ways that artists and craftspeople cultivate mathematical sensibilities through their practical immersion in making and problem-solving. Mathematical sensibilities refer to skilled kinds of perception and heightened levels of attention and discernment regarding the qualitative properties of an object or composition, such as its shape, proportion, balance, symmetry, centredness, alignment or levelness. It also…
Regimes of ignorance
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
A Diary of Filmmaking with Djenné Masons
Visual representation is vital to the study of craft. Craftwork takes place in dynamic social contexts in which a multitude of often interdependent activities occur simultaneously between actors, materials, tools and other objects. This article traces and critically engages with my own efforts to represent visually the masons of Djenné. As recording technologies become more user-friendly and the means to disseminate images and sound become more w…
It's in Our Blood
Film review of Da Kali: the pledge of the art of the griot (2013, 86 minutes) and Dò Farala A Kan: something has been added (2013, 69 minutes). French and Bamanankan, with English subtitles. Directed by Lucy Durán, edited by Michele Banal, and made with assistance from Lassana Diabaté
For the love of masonry
Grounded in rich interview material recorded in Leiden, this article documents the artistry, passion, and professional dedication of a group of Malian craftsmen. In their own words (translated and transcribed from Bamanakan into English), five mud masons of Djenné deliberate upon training regimes, the growing importance of literacy and numeracy in their practice, competition and intergenerational conflict, the role of secrets in building construc…
The Djenné Mosque. World Heritage and Social Renewal in a West African Town
Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen
Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen, and investigates the unique teaching-learning processes that distinguish their trade and mould both their professional and social characters
Knowledge in Hand
Introduction – Anthropologies to Come
The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology
Indispensable eyesores
Apprenticeship in critical ethnographic practice - By Jean Lave
Making Knowledge
Embodied cognition and communication
The approach to embodied cognition and communication presented in this study of carpentry practices among English woodwork tutors and trainees is an agent-centred one. I describe the cognitive operations that make possible both the enactment and the understanding of practice by focusing on the way that received somatic information is 'interpreted'from the body. It is proposed that the flow of human movement, like the stream of words in an utteran…
Making knowledge
There is growing recognition among social and natural scientists that nature or nurture should not be studied in isolation, for their interdependence is not trivial, but vital. The aim of this volume is to progress anthropology's thinking about human knowledge by exploring the interdependence of nurture with nature; and more specifically the interdependence of minds, bodies, and environments. This introductory essay begins with an overview of the…
Negotiating Licence and Limits
During a mason's apprenticeship in Djenné, the young man acquires not only technical skills, but also appropriate social knowledge and a bodily comportment. Together, these inform his professional performance as a craftsman. Recognized masters of the trade creatively innovate in a manner that effectively expands the discursive boundaries of tradition and what is popularly accepted as 'authentic' Djenné architecture. Based on ethnographic work amo…
Knowledge in Practice
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Muscles, Morals and Mind
The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mud masons in Mali and fine-woodwork trainees in London. These case studies of on-site learning and practice support an expanded notion of knowledge that exceeds propositional thinking and language and …
Modernity's Artisanal Roots
Crafting Knowledge
Making knowledge
There is growing recognition among social and natural scientists that nature or nurture should not be studied in isolation, for their interdependence is not trivial, but vital. The aim of this volume is to progress anthropology's thinking about human knowledge by exploring the interdependence of nurture with nature; and more specifically the interdependence of minds, bodies, and environments. This introductory essay begins with an overview of the…
Muscles, Morals and Mind
The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mud masons in Mali and fine-woodwork trainees in London. These case studies of on-site learning and practice support an expanded notion of knowledge that exceeds propositional thinking and language and …
Embodied cognition and communication
The approach to embodied cognition and communication presented in this study of carpentry practices among English woodwork tutors and trainees is an agent-centred one. I describe the cognitive operations that make possible both the enactment and the understanding of practice by focusing on the way that received somatic information is 'interpreted'from the body. It is proposed that the flow of human movement, like the stream of words in an utteran…
The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology
Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen
Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen, and investigates the unique teaching-learning processes that distinguish their trade and mould both their professional and social characters
Knowledge in Practice
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Negotiating Licence and Limits
During a mason's apprenticeship in Djenné, the young man acquires not only technical skills, but also appropriate social knowledge and a bodily comportment. Together, these inform his professional performance as a craftsman. Recognized masters of the trade creatively innovate in a manner that effectively expands the discursive boundaries of tradition and what is popularly accepted as 'authentic' Djenné architecture. Based on ethnographic work amo…
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Toward an anthropology of mathematizing
This essay investigates the practical ways that artists and craftspeople cultivate mathematical sensibilities through their practical immersion in making and problem-solving. Mathematical sensibilities refer to skilled kinds of perception and heightened levels of attention and discernment regarding the qualitative properties of an object or composition, such as its shape, proportion, balance, symmetry, centredness, alignment or levelness. It also…
For the love of masonry
Grounded in rich interview material recorded in Leiden, this article documents the artistry, passion, and professional dedication of a group of Malian craftsmen. In their own words (translated and transcribed from Bamanakan into English), five mud masons of Djenné deliberate upon training regimes, the growing importance of literacy and numeracy in their practice, competition and intergenerational conflict, the role of secrets in building construc…
A Diary of Filmmaking with Djenné Masons
Visual representation is vital to the study of craft. Craftwork takes place in dynamic social contexts in which a multitude of often interdependent activities occur simultaneously between actors, materials, tools and other objects. This article traces and critically engages with my own efforts to represent visually the masons of Djenné. As recording technologies become more user-friendly and the means to disseminate images and sound become more w…
Apprenticeship in critical ethnographic practice - By Jean Lave
Crafting Knowledge
Muscles, Morals and Mind
The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mud masons in Mali and fine-woodwork trainees in London. These case studies of on-site learning and practice support an expanded notion of knowledge that exceeds propositional thinking and language and …
Modernity's Artisanal Roots
Negotiating Licence and Limits
During a mason's apprenticeship in Djenné, the young man acquires not only technical skills, but also appropriate social knowledge and a bodily comportment. Together, these inform his professional performance as a craftsman. Recognized masters of the trade creatively innovate in a manner that effectively expands the discursive boundaries of tradition and what is popularly accepted as 'authentic' Djenné architecture. Based on ethnographic work amo…
Knowledge in Practice
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Embodied cognition and communication
The approach to embodied cognition and communication presented in this study of carpentry practices among English woodwork tutors and trainees is an agent-centred one. I describe the cognitive operations that make possible both the enactment and the understanding of practice by focusing on the way that received somatic information is 'interpreted'from the body. It is proposed that the flow of human movement, like the stream of words in an utteran…
Making knowledge
There is growing recognition among social and natural scientists that nature or nurture should not be studied in isolation, for their interdependence is not trivial, but vital. The aim of this volume is to progress anthropology's thinking about human knowledge by exploring the interdependence of nurture with nature; and more specifically the interdependence of minds, bodies, and environments. This introductory essay begins with an overview of the…
Making Knowledge
Knowledge in Hand
Introduction – Anthropologies to Come
The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology
Indispensable eyesores
Apprenticeship in critical ethnographic practice - By Jean Lave
The Djenné Mosque. World Heritage and Social Renewal in a West African Town
Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen
Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen, and investigates the unique teaching-learning processes that distinguish their trade and mould both their professional and social characters
For the love of masonry
Grounded in rich interview material recorded in Leiden, this article documents the artistry, passion, and professional dedication of a group of Malian craftsmen. In their own words (translated and transcribed from Bamanakan into English), five mud masons of Djenné deliberate upon training regimes, the growing importance of literacy and numeracy in their practice, competition and intergenerational conflict, the role of secrets in building construc…
Regimes of ignorance
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
A Diary of Filmmaking with Djenné Masons
Visual representation is vital to the study of craft. Craftwork takes place in dynamic social contexts in which a multitude of often interdependent activities occur simultaneously between actors, materials, tools and other objects. This article traces and critically engages with my own efforts to represent visually the masons of Djenné. As recording technologies become more user-friendly and the means to disseminate images and sound become more w…
It's in Our Blood
Film review of Da Kali: the pledge of the art of the griot (2013, 86 minutes) and Dò Farala A Kan: something has been added (2013, 69 minutes). French and Bamanankan, with English subtitles. Directed by Lucy Durán, edited by Michele Banal, and made with assistance from Lassana Diabaté
Built Environment
The built environment can be defined as the combination of built structures and modified landscapes that support human life and livelihoods. It is made and continually remade and expanded through a dynamic mix of social interaction, competition, design and planning, physical labor, skilled craftsmanship, economic exchange, and cultural processes of place making and meaning making in the world. For all of these reasons, study of the built environm…
Embodied Learning
Social and cultural anthropology have, historically, relegated questions about human biology, physiology, bodily practice, and embodied learning to physical anthropology and the natural sciences. Marcel Mauss's essay on techniques of the body, however, presents a notable early exception that, along with challenges in philosophy to the mind/body dichotomy during the first half of the twentieth century, gradually generated dedicated interest in the…
Toward an anthropology of mathematizing
This essay investigates the practical ways that artists and craftspeople cultivate mathematical sensibilities through their practical immersion in making and problem-solving. Mathematical sensibilities refer to skilled kinds of perception and heightened levels of attention and discernment regarding the qualitative properties of an object or composition, such as its shape, proportion, balance, symmetry, centredness, alignment or levelness. It also…
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Sociology (12 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Apprenticeship (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works)