| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; Ad Borsboom; Contents; 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' |
| Summary |
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 educa |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education -- Cross-cultural studies.
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EDUCATION / General.
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Education.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Anthropologie
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Ethnologie
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Kulturanthropologie
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Ozeanien
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Venbrux, Eric
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| ISBN |
9789048521142 |
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9048521149 |
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1283259583 |
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9781283259583 |
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