The ethnography of reading

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The ethnography of reading

edited by Jonathan Boyarin

University of California Press, c1993

  • : cloth : alk. paper
  • : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Volume

: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780520079557

Description

Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now receives its due in this collection of essays. The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of "literacy" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written communication. Some investigate reading in exotically cross-cultural contexts. Others analyze the long historical transformation of reading in the West from a collective, oral practice to the private, silent one of today, or demonstrate that in certain Western contexts reading is still very much a social activity. The reading situations described here range from Anglo-Saxon England to contemporary Indonesia.

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AUTHORS: James Baker Daniel Boyarin Jonathan Boyarin Diana Diggs Johannes Fabian Mack Horton Nicholas Howe Elizabeth Long Susan Noakes Joanna Rappaport Greg Sarris Brian Stock With a special contribution by Ursula K. Le Guin
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: alk. paper ISBN 9780520081338

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Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars. The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of "literacy" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written communication. Some investigate reading in exotically cross-cultural contexts. Some analyze the long historical transformation of reading in the West from a collective, oral practice to the private, silent one it is today, while others demonstrate that in certain Western contexts reading is still very much a social activity. The reading situations described here range from Anglo-Saxon England to contemporary Indonesia, from ancient Israel to a Kashaya Pomo Indian reservation. Filled with insights that erase the line between orality and textuality, this collection will attract a broad readership in anthropology, literature, history, and philosophy, as well as in religious, gender, and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

AUTHORS: James Baker Daniel Boyarin Jonathan Boyarin Diana Diggs Johannes Fabian Mack Horton Nicholas Howe Elizabeth Long Susan Noakes Joanna Rappaport Greg Sarris Brian Stock With a special contribution by Ursula K. Le Guin

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