Roy Dilley

Ways of Knowing, Forms of Power

This article calls for attention to be given to differing cultural forms of learning, especially to how people claim to learn, and what it is they claim to learn. The analysis highlights the value of participation and human experience as a mode of learning, and constitutes a critique of earlier forms of social anthropological methodology. It suggests that the concept of mimesis should be treated as a central feature of fieldwork enculturation. Moreover, experiences and understandings gained from participation forml a vehicle to help uncover indigenous theories of learning, and these ideas in turn reflect back upon our own culture-specific ways of conceiving the processes of learning. The ethnographic focus is on learning a craft and on performing routinely practical activities among Senegalese Tukulor weavers and praise-singers, the mabube.

Nearly Native, Barely Civilized

Table of Contents Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Orthography Introduction A Funeral, Thursday, 14th December 1939 Chapter One. Gironde, Paris and Beyond Chapter Two. Agent of Commerce, African Novice: From Bordeaux to Bandiagara, 1894-1896 Interlude: Furlough in France I Chapter Three. On the Trail of the Black Napoleon, 1897-1899 Interlude: Furlough in France II Chapter Four. The Mallam and the Qadis: A Posting to Zinder, 1900-1903 Interlude: Furlough in France III Chapter Five. Cherchez la Femme: Tchekna, Chad, 1904-1907 Interlude: Furlough in France IV Chapter Six. Confidential Relations: Boutilimit, Mauritania, 1908-1911 Interlude: Furlough in France V Chapter Seven. Paperwork and Bullets: The Years of Scholarship and War, 1912-18 Chapter Eight. Governor, Savant, Adopted Son: St Louis, 1919-1927 Chapter Nine. The Monk of St Louis, 1927-1939 Index General Bibliography Bibliography of Henri Gadens Published Works

Apprenticeship, Anthropological Aspects

Recent studies of apprenticeship have raised the method of skill-based learning in anthropology to new levels of sophistication and applied it to new areas of social life. Three predominant themes arise from this body of work: (1) apprenticeship as an indigenous form of social organization for learning specific skills and crafts, (2) apprenticeship as the way in which anthropologists have themselves undergone specific training as part of a fieldwork research method, and (3) how apprenticeship provides an opportunity to learn about learning in a variety of cultural settings, which has led to anthropological debate about theories of learning and practice.

Reflections of Rouch by Father, Son and 'Holey' Ghosts: Images in the Hall of Mirrors. Review Essay

I write this review essay from a university office in Scotland at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century. Situating myself as author is important if we are not to lose track of the stories, tales and other reflections created by others situated in different times and at different places: Paris 1960 and 1989; West Chester, USA 1987, and 1989; numerous villages along the Niger river from the 1940s onwards. The mirrors located at all of these