Lauren Miller Griffith: 2 books
Apprenticeship Pilgrimage
Developing Expertise through Travel and Training
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion introduce the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage to help explain why performers travel to places both near and far in an attempt to increase both their skill and their legitimacy within various genres of art and activity. What happens when your skill-level...
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their...