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Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts (edición 2019)

por Alexander Langlands (Autor)

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The Old English word "craeft" signified knowledge, skill, wisdom, and resourcefulness. Today, in the wake of industrialization, people are again seeking products made with authenticity -- artisan breads, local honey, craft beers, furniture and other goods made by human hands. Archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Landlands travels from his home in Wales along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe learning a wide range of traditional manual skills, and searching for the lost meaning of craeft.… (más)
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Título:Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
Autores:Alexander Langlands (Autor)
Información:W. W. Norton & Company (2019), Edition: Illustrated, 352 pages
Colecciones:Regia Anglorum
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Etiquetas:early medieval

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Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts por Alexander Langlands

Añadido recientemente porbiblioteca privada, robinhood, AJI4STS, burkegardner, Gothademic13, TamaraPodolny, uses, Treebeard_404, samkspringer
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    The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction por Matthew B. Crawford (melmore)
    melmore: Both works address, among other things, the way in which skilled craft is a specific kind of intelligence, different from, but not less than, what we have traditionally thought of as intellect. Both make the case that this intelligence resides in the interface between the skilled worker and the material world on which he or exerts that skill.… (más)
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This was a delightful excursion through a variety of crafts through the eyes of an archeologist and near-compulsive dabbler. Langlands has had the opportunity to either set his hand to the crafts described or seen, first-hand and up close, masters demonstrating their skill at them.
[Audiobook note: Matthew Lloyd Davies is an excellent reader. I intend to look for other books he has narrated.] ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
Illustrations would have been helpful or even stills from the Farm series that related to the topic. Otherwise, a solid read. It does help to have watched all the Farm series beforehand so you have a good clue to what he's talking about ( and being able to picture what he's describing). ( )
  pacbox | Jul 9, 2022 |
I'm so delighted that another member of the archaeological team that brought us the British "farm" series is turning to authorship, and doing a bang-up job of it, too. I was initially a little skeptical -- the use of craeft, with it's odd spelling seemed like a potentially pretentious sign. Instead, I found a thorough and fascinating intellectual argument woven through both personal storytelling and thoughtful investigations of how things have been done through history. Thoughtful is a great word for this book -- Langlands does a wonderful job providing a vast historical context, both past and present, and manages to avoid sinking into a quagmire of nostalgia without practical purpose. He also links the evolution of crafts in ways that that I would not have thought of, and offers a lot of food for thought for incorporating this sort of work into modern life. I learned a lot here, and I enjoyed taking my time reading it.

Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
This is not craft, this is history of craft and cosplay as a craftsman. I am interested in and respect the Amish and other societies that selectively accept technological progress but the author's objections to modern tools are based on some baseless romantic notions and have sod all to do with craft. ( )
1 vota Paul_S | Nov 27, 2021 |
A frustrating book; the kind that makes you want to say “What a deep insight!” on one page and throw it against the wall on the next. The jacket blurb describes Author Alexander Langlands as an archaeologist, medieval historian, and “regular presenter on BBC”; so far so good. But as we learn through the book, he’s also an avocational farmer.

Langlands praises “cræft”, spelled with the Old English “ash”; the process of doing useful things with your hands in the “traditional” manner. Chapters cover making hay, keeping bees, thatching roofs, masking pots, weaving baskets, and so on. And every chapter is full of fascinating details about how it’s done; making hay is more complicated than just cutting down grass with a scythe; thatching roofs is more involved than just throwing plants on top of your house. These are all things a medieval archaeologist should know how to do, just as a Paleolithic archaeologist should know how to knap flint and butcher a cow with the results.

But it’s one thing to know how to do these things so you can interpret what’s found in an archaeological dig, but it’s another to suggest that it’s somehow “better” that way. This starts in the initial chapter, where Langlands moans peevishly about the difficulty getting his “strimmer” (what would be called a “string trimmer” on this side of the Atlantic) to work, what with mixing the oil and “petrol”, decarbonizing the spark plug, replacing the nylon string, and then still be unable to get it to start. Well, guess what; maintaining internal combustion engines is a “cræft” – see Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It gets worse; Langlands advocates farmers return to plowing with horse teams, because it’s more “cræfty”; and their dung will fertilize the fields. I think we need Vaclav Smil to do a little input-output analysis on that one. And last, I observe that my copy of this book was printed on a high speed rotogravure press with oil-based inks on mass-produced paper and machine bound, not hand lettered in a scriptorium on vellum using oak-gall ink and a goose feather quill.

No illustrations other than pseudomedieval line drawings leading off the chapters. No bibliography or notes. Perhaps I’m too harsh; there really are a lot of fascinating things in Cræft. But I just get tired of claims that “the old ways were better”; sure, 80% child mortality, serfdom, and now and then burning a witch for a little excitement. ( )
2 vota setnahkt | Nov 30, 2020 |
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Langlands, surprisingly unsentimental for someone who made his fame doing historical re-enactments, resists the pull of nostalgia. Yet he makes a persuasive case that the surrender of our lives to machines represents a regression. 'Factory manufacture,' he writes, 'robs us of a special something: contemplation.' He’s not talking about the big questions of human existence, but of the hundreds of small ones that go into something as simple — or as complex — as building a stone wall: 'Which to use? How to work it? Where to strike it?' In the end, this is the case he makes for craeft. At a time where our disconnection from the world around us is not just tragic but downright dangerous, recovering our status as Homo faber, the species that makes things, may be our salvation.
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The Old English word "craeft" signified knowledge, skill, wisdom, and resourcefulness. Today, in the wake of industrialization, people are again seeking products made with authenticity -- artisan breads, local honey, craft beers, furniture and other goods made by human hands. Archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Landlands travels from his home in Wales along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe learning a wide range of traditional manual skills, and searching for the lost meaning of craeft.

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