Cultural styles of knowledge transmission

Essays in honour of Ad Borsboom

Eric Venbrux, Jean Kommers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040796849
• Topic: Education

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 cultures from across the globe, focuses on knowledge transmission. The contributions deal with local forms of education or pedagogics, the learning experiences of fieldwork and the nexus of status and education. Whereas some essays are reflexive, others are personal in nature. But all of the authors are fascinated by the divergent ways in which people handle 'knowledge'. The volume provides readers with respectful representations of other cultures and their distinct epistemologies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Ad Borsboom
• Table of Contents
• Frontmatter
• Maradjiri and Mamurrng: Ad Borsboom and Me
• Conversations with Mostapha: Learning about Islamic Law in a Bookshop in Rabat
• Education in Eighteenth Century Polynesia
• From Knowledge to Consciousness: Teachers, Teachings, and the Transmission of Healing
• When ‘Natives ’ Use What Anthropologists Wrote: The Case of Dutch Rif Berbers
• The Experience of the Elders: Learning Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Netherlands
• On Hermeneutics, Ad ’s Antennas and the Wholly Other
• Bontius in Batavia: Early Steps in Intercultural Communication
• 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: On Change, Exchange and Anthropological Knowledge
• Bodily Learning: The Case of Pilgrimage by Foot to Santiago de Compostela
• Just Humming: The Consequence of the Decline of Learning Contexts among the Warlpiri
• A Note on Observation
• Fragments of Transmission of Kamoro Culture (South-West Coast, West Papua), Culled from Fieldnotes, 1952-1954
• Getting Answers May Take Some Time… The Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay) Workshop on the Transfer of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit from Elders to Youths, June 20 – 27, 2004
• Conflict in the Classroom: Values and Educational Success
• The Teachings of Tokunupei
• Consulting the Old Lady
• A Chain of Transitional Rites: Teachings beyond Boundaries
• ‘That Tour Guide – Im Gotta Know Everything ’: Tourism as a Stage for Teaching ‘Culture ’ in Aboriginal Australia
• The Old Fashioned Funeral: Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
• Backmatter