Skate/worlds brings together writers, educators, researchers and social workers who use skateboarding as a learning tool. Can skateboarding be a school subject? Is it therapeutic? Why do skaters learn to move sideways? What do you learn from falling and failing? And how can skateboarding help parents with raising newborns?

This volume chronicles how we can learn to skate and learn from skateboarding – zooming in on topics including gestalt therapy, high school education, opensource learning...

In this first volume of essential texts, on the history of anthropological theory, the rise and fall of the notion of structure is certainly one of the most important to note. In this book, this development is traced and held against an understanding of ethnographic practice. The book intently starts with a contemporary ethnographic example that serves as a backdrop for testing theoretical notions.The movement through theory is one that oscillates between structure and no-thing (and perhaps b...