Anthropologist Ad Borsboom 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, specialiing in cultures from across the globe, focuses on knowledge transmission. The contributions deal with local forms of education or pedagogy, the learning experiences of fieldwork, and the nexus of status and education. Whereas some essays are reflexive, others are personal...

This literary analysis of the representation of ‘Gypsies’ in juvenile literature is unique in its comparative scope, as well as in the special attention to rare pre-1850 narratives, the period in which juvenile literature developed as a specific genre. Most studies on the subject are about one national literary tradition or confined to a limited period. In this study Dutch, English, French and German texts are analysed and discussed with reference to main academic publications on the subject. Emphasis is on the rich variation in narrative presentations, rather than on an inventory of...