Cultural Styles of Knowledge Transmission: Essays in Honour of Ad Borsboom
edited by Jean Kommers and Eric Venbrux by Dave Lyddon and Kurt Vandaele
Amsterdam University Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-90-485-2114-2 | Paper: 978-90-5260-298-1 Library of Congress Classification GN451.C85 2008
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK 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
Introduction
Jean Kommers and Eric Venbrux
Ad Borsboom
Charles de Weert
Maradjiri and Mamurrng: Ad Borsboom and Me
Jon Altman
Conversations with Mostapha: Learning about Islamic Law in a Bookshop in Rabat
Léon Buskens
Education in Eighteenth Century Polynesia
Henri J. M. Claessen
From Knowledge to Consciousness: Teachers, Teachings, and the Transmission of Healing
Ien Courtens
When 'Natives' Use What Anthropologists Wrote: The Case of Dutch Rif Berbers
Henk Driessen
The Experience of the Elders: Learning Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Netherlands
Michael Fine
On Hermeneutics, Ad's Antennas and the Wholly Other
René van der Haar
Bontius in Batavia: Early Steps in Intercultural Communication
Frans Hüsken
Ceremonies of Learning and Status in Jordan
Willy Jansen
Al Amien: A Modern Variant of an Age-Old Educational Institution
Huub de Jonge
Yolngu and Anthropological Learning Styles in Ritual Contexts
Ian Keen
Learning to Be White in Guadeloupe
Janine Klungel
Learning from 'the Other', Writing about 'the Other'
Jean Kommers
Maori Styles of Teaching and Learning
Toon van Meijl
Tutorials as Integration into a Study Environment
Ariana Need
The Transmission of Kinship Knowledge
Catrien Notermans
Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea: On Change, Exchange and Anthropological Knowledge
Ton Otto
Bodily Learning: The Case of Pilgrimage by Foot to Santiago de Compostela
Janneke Peelen
Just Humming: The Consequence of the Decline of Learning Contexts among the Warlpiri
Nicolas Peterson
A Note on Observation
Anton Ploeg
Fragments of Transmission of Kamoro Culture (South-West Coast, West Papua), Culled from Fieldnotes, 1952–1954
Jan Pouwer
Gettings Answers May Take Some Time. . . The Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay) Workshop on the Transfer of Inuit Quajimajatuqangit from Elders to Youths, June 20–27, 2004
Cor Remie
Conflict in the Classroom: Values and Educational Success
Marianne Riphagen
The Teachings of Tokunupei
Gunter Senft
Consulting the Old Lady
Marijke Steegstra
A Chain of Transitional Rites: Teachings beyond Boundaries
Louise Thoonen
'That Tour Guide—Im Gotta Know Everything': Tourism as a Stage for Teaching 'Culture' in Aboriginal Australia
Anke Tonnaer
The Old Fashioned Funeral: Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Eric Venbrux
Cultural Styles of Knowledge Transmission: Essays in Honour of Ad Borsboom
edited by Jean Kommers and Eric Venbrux by Dave Lyddon and Kurt Vandaele
Amsterdam University Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-90-485-2114-2 Paper: 978-90-5260-298-1
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
Introduction
Jean Kommers and Eric Venbrux
Ad Borsboom
Charles de Weert
Maradjiri and Mamurrng: Ad Borsboom and Me
Jon Altman
Conversations with Mostapha: Learning about Islamic Law in a Bookshop in Rabat
Léon Buskens
Education in Eighteenth Century Polynesia
Henri J. M. Claessen
From Knowledge to Consciousness: Teachers, Teachings, and the Transmission of Healing
Ien Courtens
When 'Natives' Use What Anthropologists Wrote: The Case of Dutch Rif Berbers
Henk Driessen
The Experience of the Elders: Learning Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Netherlands
Michael Fine
On Hermeneutics, Ad's Antennas and the Wholly Other
René van der Haar
Bontius in Batavia: Early Steps in Intercultural Communication
Frans Hüsken
Ceremonies of Learning and Status in Jordan
Willy Jansen
Al Amien: A Modern Variant of an Age-Old Educational Institution
Huub de Jonge
Yolngu and Anthropological Learning Styles in Ritual Contexts
Ian Keen
Learning to Be White in Guadeloupe
Janine Klungel
Learning from 'the Other', Writing about 'the Other'
Jean Kommers
Maori Styles of Teaching and Learning
Toon van Meijl
Tutorials as Integration into a Study Environment
Ariana Need
The Transmission of Kinship Knowledge
Catrien Notermans
Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea: On Change, Exchange and Anthropological Knowledge
Ton Otto
Bodily Learning: The Case of Pilgrimage by Foot to Santiago de Compostela
Janneke Peelen
Just Humming: The Consequence of the Decline of Learning Contexts among the Warlpiri
Nicolas Peterson
A Note on Observation
Anton Ploeg
Fragments of Transmission of Kamoro Culture (South-West Coast, West Papua), Culled from Fieldnotes, 1952–1954
Jan Pouwer
Gettings Answers May Take Some Time. . . The Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay) Workshop on the Transfer of Inuit Quajimajatuqangit from Elders to Youths, June 20–27, 2004
Cor Remie
Conflict in the Classroom: Values and Educational Success
Marianne Riphagen
The Teachings of Tokunupei
Gunter Senft
Consulting the Old Lady
Marijke Steegstra
A Chain of Transitional Rites: Teachings beyond Boundaries
Louise Thoonen
'That Tour Guide—Im Gotta Know Everything': Tourism as a Stage for Teaching 'Culture' in Aboriginal Australia
Anke Tonnaer
The Old Fashioned Funeral: Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Eric Venbrux