ESSAYS  IN  HONOUR  OF  AD  BORSBOOM: CULTURAL  STYLES  OF  KNOWLEDGE  TRANSMISSION

 

Kommers, Jean and Eric Venbrux (eds). 2008. Cultural Styles of Knowledge Transmission: Essays in Honour of Ad Borsboom. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers. 166 pages. ISBN: 978-90-5260-298-1 (pb).

 

Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transition 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 knowlegde 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.

 

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 Anthtropological Knowledge

            Ton Otto

Just Humming: The Consequence of the Decline of Learning Contexts among the Warlpiri

            Nicholas 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

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

            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

 

The book is available via:

 

Mrs. R. Breedveld

Radboud University

Thomas van Aquinostraat 4

PO Box 9044

6500 KD Nijmegen

The Netherlands

 

Price 20 Euro.