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On Being a Good Neighbor, or Things I Learned in the Field
Author(s) -
Stephens William C.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12059
Subject(s) - sociology , field (mathematics) , maya , bildung , process (computing) , educational anthropology , epistemology , mode (computer interface) , pedagogy , anthropology , ethnography , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , operating system
This article explores the possibility of anthropology as Bildung, or self‐cultivation. As an educational mode, Bildung is focused on the moral education of students, encouraging them to broaden themselves in their encounters with others. I will discuss this process in terms of a lesson I learned from the highland Maya about being a good neighbor and will demonstrate how neighborliness can offer students a possibility for their own self‐cultivation.