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The utility of Lave and Wenger's social theory of learning can be evaluated through specific case studies which enhance our understanding of how education proceeds in diverse contexts. Here the author provides an ethnographic case study of the training of Caribbean-born Hindu pandits (priests) living and working in Queens, New York. In order to explicate the process by which people are moved into the social roles of “pandit-in-training” and “pandit,” the author shifts between interviewees’ words, vignettes of their actions and her interpretation of communities of practice and its relevance for mapping the education of Hindu pandits.