 The road not taken? (Re)directing educational anthropology toward cultural processes of attention, becoming, and responsible agencyKatherine Richardson Bruna Chapter 4 in Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education, 2026, pp 26-38 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter explores Ingold's critique of cultural transmission as the purpose of educational anthropology. The chapter examines his proposed “science of correspondence” against ideas put forward by the Spindlers as well as their contemporaries in order to understand the critique's implication for the what, how, and why of the field. This exploration allows for a re-recognition of seminal ideas such as propriospect, cultural therapy, and transcultural sensitization, while reading those through the more current philosophical framing of radical interconnectedness, captured by Medina's exposition on epistemic competence. The chapter concludes by finding that Ingold shares many interests with transmission-era scholars and by suggesting that, taken together, their approaches are vital to investing educational institutions, such as universities, more firmly in the mission to develop personhood for responsible and transformative agency. Keywords: Cultural transmission; Acquisition; Propriospect; Personhood; Cultural therapy; Transcultural sensitization; Epistemic competence (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23336_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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