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This book makes a unique and important contribution to our understanding of craft and embodied knowledge. O’Connor’s long apprenticeship as a glassblower has endowed her with firsthand knowledge and expertise, and her careful reflections on her personal learning trajectories as a maker enrich both her ethnographic storytelling and theoretical analyses. -- Trevor H. J. Marchand, author of <i>The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England</i>

Fire Craft is a long-awaited response to the lack of critical and high-level academic discussions in the glass craft field. From the perspective of the practitioner, this book argues beautifully for the act of making as a transformative process of both personal becoming and world-making, that is relevant far beyond the craft discourse. -- Camilla Groth, coauthor of <i>Craft and Design Practice from an Embodied Perspective</i> This book makes a unique and important contribution to our understanding of craft and embodied knowledge. O’Connor’s long apprenticeship as a glassblower has endowed her with firsthand knowledge and expertise, and her careful reflections on her personal learning trajectories as a maker enrich both her ethnographic storytelling and theoretical analyses. -- Trevor H. J. Marchand, author of <i>The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England</i>

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Erin E. O’Connor is an associate professor of sociology in the Department of Politics and Human Rights at Marymount Manhattan College. She is a recipient of the Rakow Grant for Glass Research at the Corning Museum of Glass.

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