1st Edition
Cultural styles of knowledge transmission Essays in honour of Ad Borsboom
170 Pages
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Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection of essays by his colleagues, specializing in... Read more
Introduction, Maradjiri and Mamurrng, Conversations with Mostapha, Education in Eighteenth Century Polynesia, From Knowledge to Consciousness, When ‘Natives’ Use What Anthropologists Wrote, The Experience of the Elders, On Hermeneutics, Ad’s Antennas and the Wholly Other, Bontius in Batavia, Ceremonies of Learning and Status in Jordan, Al Amien: A Modern Variant of an Age-Old Educational Institution, Yolngu and Anthropological Learning Styles in Ritual Contexts, Learning to Be White in Guadeloupe, Learning from ‘the Other’, Writing about ‘the Other’, Maori Styles of Teaching and Learning, Tutorials as Integration into a Study Environment, The Transmission of Kinship Knowledge, Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea, Bodily Learning, Just Humming, A Note on Observation, Fragments of Transmission of Kamoro Culture, Getting Answers May Take Some Time…, Conflict in the Classroom, The Teachings of Tokunupei, Consulting the Old Lady, A Chain of Transitional Rites, ‘That Tour Guide – Im Gotta Know Everything’, The Old Fashioned Funeral
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Edited by Jean Kommers and Eric Venbrux
