“The Way We Build”: Craft, Innovation, and Sustainability in Japanese House-Carpentry

This article expands and complicates the literature on “craft” by examining the seeming anomaly of a craft community dominating a significant production sector within an advanced industrial economy, and despite the existence of cheaper high-tech and labor-saving alternatives. Japanese house-carpente...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clancey Gregory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-12-01
Series:HoST
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2021-0013