Search for dissertations about: "Birgitta Edelman"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Birgitta Edelman.

  2. 1. Shunters at work : creating a world in a railway yard

    Author : Birgitta Edelman; Tim Ingold; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Abstract : Skills, and particularly manual skills, are often seen as acquired through unquestioning practice and drill. This is an ethnographic account of a group of railway workers, called shunters, who are occupied with the manual task of assembling carriages into trains. READ MORE