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“Hypnotic.… [Langlands] begins to see not just the beauty of an object.… but the deeper purpose for which each has been created.” —New York TimesFaced with an endless supply of mass-manufactured products, we find ourselves nostalgic for goods bearing the mark of authenticity—hand-made tools, local brews, and other objects produced by human hands. Archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Langlands reaches as far back as the Neolithic period to recover our lost sense of craft, combining deep history with detailed scientific analyses and his own experiences making traditional crafts. Craft brims with vivid storytelling, rich descriptions of natural landscape, and delightful surprises that will convince us to introduce more craft into our lives.

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The book tells you what its going to tell you, tells you what it told you but it never actually tells you. It reminds me of a textbook I once read in college about the history and philosophy of science. The latter was given to me by a friend who'd barely passed one of those watered down survey courses that political science majors take because they don't have the math background to take a real science course. That was the year I was taking some pretty difficult undergraduate science courses and I recall bewilderment that the friend could actually get college credit for reading it.This book is very good at attaching words to the experience of watching someone do something crafty, the experience of working with a well tuned tool, et cetera, but not actually the process of creating using and developing the tools. It talks about the psychology of wall making, the psychology of sheep who want to knock down walls and the experience but not the detail of the process of choosing stones, laying them, fitting them and building the wall. Same for weaving and other crafts. There is interesting history, interesting subjective experience, some theoretical background, but not anything about the actual nuts and bolts of doing it!I would compare and contrast this to a book about the processes of crafts such as  Forgotten Household Crafts  or any of the Foxfire series of books. (Foxfire was written using a technique where school teachers sent their students into the community to write about specific people doing specific crafts.) In such books is history, philosophy, subjectivity...but there is discussion of the actual tools and processes.I do appreciate the author's education and would probably like talking to him, listening to his lectures. But one must realize that in anthropology as in the other sciences, being able to spin a good yarn is not the way one advances knowledge. This is a good yarn but not a good inquiry into the origins and true nature of crafts. By way of contrast with a lesser known book in which an expert explores the true nature of a craft I'd suggest  The art of flint knapping . Also, for a well considered anthropological perspective on a specific craft one could look at  Hot Pursuit: Integrating Anthropology in Search of Ancient Glass-blowers

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