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  TECHNIQUES, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGES :
(texte français: cliquez ici)   Transmitting through experience

 

In the European field like in other cultural fields experience always contribute to the elaboration and transmission of most complex techniques.
INTRODUCTION
FOREIGN LOOK, INNER LOOK
TECHNIQUES, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGES
1 Transmitting through experience
2 Knowing through all senses
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Transmission as social act

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Institutions uses for transmission
TERRITORY AND MEANING OF THE PLACE
KINSHIP AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION
CUSTOM, CEREMONIAL AND RITE
TALE, LEGEND, ART OF NARRATION
EPIC, DEPHTS OF HISTORY
WHAT IS CALLED VAMPIRE
IMAGINE AND THINK THE NEXT WORLD
Pottery's wokshop, Eure, France, earliy 1900'
 
An important part of the expertise needed to appreciate materials and master techniques was-and still is-transmitted orally in the workshop, and can be acquired only through experience. But these handbooks do set forth the essentials, systematized, classified, and stripped of the mystery surrounding professional secrets and tricks of the trade. Literally hundreds of them, published in the Encyclopédie Roret,1 cover an enormous range of occupations-manuals for piano tuners, starch and vermicelli makers, land surveyors, hosiers and stocking manufacturers, shoemakers and cobblers, harness makers and saddlers, brewers, embroiderers, tanners of chamois or morocco leather, furriers, farm bailiffs, makers of parchment, candles, wax objects and scaling wax, hatters, charcutiers, carpenters, wheelwrights and carriage makers, coppersmiths and lime-burners, to cite only some of the major headings (translated) at the beginning of the alphabet!   next
    J.C.: L'Art Populaire en France, Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1975,p.55
   
 
 
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