The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (review)

The apprentices acquire a whole set of values, a poetics of authority and how to subvert it, through this discipline: from how to be courteous to their high-status customers while mocking them behind their backs, to how to appear bored, to feign indifference, so better to "steal" the techn...

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Published inJournal of Modern Greek Studies Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 463 - 465
Main Author Sutton, David E. (David Evan)
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2006
Subjects
Burglary
Childrens literature
Hierarchies
Learning
Nonfiction
Poetics
Society
Trade secrets
Greece
Crete
Chicago Illinois
Kalymnos
Illinois
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Summary:The apprentices acquire a whole set of values, a poetics of authority and how to subvert it, through this discipline: from how to be courteous to their high-status customers while mocking them behind their backs, to how to appear bored, to feign indifference, so better to "steal" the techniques of a jealous master and by doing so, to show themselves to be worthy adversaries and perhaps worthy future partners (note the similarity here to the sheep thieves of Glendi who "steal to make friends").
ISSN:0738-1727
1086-3265
1086-3265
DOI:10.1353/mgs.2006.0028