Spring/Summer 2009 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

e d u c at i o n / a n t h r o p o l o g y
In the Presence of Each
Other
A Pedagogy of Storytelling
Johanna Kuyvenhoven
There can be little
doubt that pedagogical
practices have increasingly
become focused
on reading and writing
in childhood education.
In the Presence of Each
Other is a brilliant ethnography
that examines
the educational benefits
of the use of oral storytelling
in the classroom
and the ways in which non-print literacy enhances
children’s overall language and communication
capacities.
Presenting a strong argument based on compelling
evidence for the incorporation of oral practices
in the classroom, Johanna Kuyvenhoven follows
a group of children in grades four and five as
they forge an inclusive learning environment that
respects linguistic, social, and ethnic diversity by
sharing stories out loud. She traces the positive
effects that oral storytelling has on children’s vocabularies,
writing skills, as well as for problem-solving
abilities and empathetic responses that are essential
to learning across the disciplines. In the Presence
of Each Other is a ground-breaking work not only
for educators but also for anyone interested in the
practice of storytelling.
Johanna Kuyvenhoven is an associate professor in
the Education Department at Calvin College.
Invaders as Ancestors
On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of
Spanish Colonialism in the Andes
Peter Gose
Anthropological Horizons
Since pre-Incan times,
native Andean people
had worshipped their
ancestors, and the custom
continued even after the
arrival of the Spaniards
in the sixteenth century.
Ancestor-worship however,
did not exclude members
of other cultures: in
fact, the Andeans welcomed
outsiders as ancestors.
Invaders as Ancestors examines how this unique
cultural practice first facilitated Spanish colonization
and eventually undid the colonial project when the
Spanish attacked ancestor worship as idolatry and
Andeans adopted Spanish political and religious forms
to challenge indigenous rulers.
In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways
in which Andeans converted conquest confrontations
into relations of kinship and obligation and
then worshipped Christianized and racially ‘white’
spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the
conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship
bonds with the Andeans by adhering to strict rules
of racial separation. Invaders as Ancestors explores
an alternative response to colonization beyond the
predictable resistance narrative, presenting instead a
creative form of transculturation under the agency
of the Andeans. Invaders as Ancestors is a fascinating
account of one of the most unusual transcultural
encounters in the history of colonialism.
Peter Gose is the Chair of the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
Approx. 240 pp / 6 x 9 / April 2009
5 figures
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8020-9915-0 £32.00 $50.00 E
Approx. 408 pp / 6 x 9 / January 2009
17 illustrations
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8020-9876-4 £50.00 $80.00 E
Paper ISBN 978-0-8020-9617-3 £22.50 $35.00 C
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