The anthropology of writing : understanding textually mediated worlds
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The anthropology of writing : understanding textually mediated worlds
Continuum, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The studies included in this book examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions. Writing has been the subject of much research but it is usually highly visible and valued texts that are studied - the work of novelists, poets and scholars. The studies included in this book examine every day acts of writing and their significance. Ordinary quotidian writing may be viewed as mundane and routine, but it is central to how societies operate and the ways individuals relate to each other and to institutions. Examples discussed in the book including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. The chapters are united in their approach to examining this writing as cultural practice. The book also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone. The work of French scholars in this field is made accessible for the first time to the Anglophone world.
The insights and research in this collection will appeal to all linguists, anthropologists, sociolinguistics and cultural theorists.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: The anthropology of writing: writing as social and cultural practice
- 1. What is the 'anthropology of writing'? David Barton and Uta Papen (both University of Lancaster, UK)
- 2. Acts of writing: when writing is doing, Beatrice Fraenke (EHESS, France)
- Part 2: Writing in the workplace - institutional demands
- 3. Updating a biomedical database. David Pontille (EHESS, France)
- 4. Balancing demands from system and situation: literacy practices in a childcare workplace, Karin Tusting (University of Lancaster, UK)
- 5. Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension, Nathalie Joly (EHESS, France)
- Part 3: Writing by individuals and institutions
- 6. Vernacular spaces on the web. David Barton (University of Lancaster, UK)
- 7. Keeping a personal note-book in rural Mali: Practice, genre and the materiality of writing, Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye (EHESS, France)
- 8. Writing and being written about: patients as writers and recipients of health texts. Uta Papen (University of Lancaster, UK)
- Part 4: Historical perspectives
- 9. Using Edwardian postcards to study ordinary writing, Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall (University of Lancaster, UK)
- 10. Legal and illegal forms of public writing in 17th century France, Anne Beroujon (UPMF Grenoble, France)
- 11. Writing illness: the diary of a doctor treating morphine addict in late nineteenth century France, Philippe Artieres (EHESS, France)
- Afterword: Current themes in the anthropology of writing. Brian Street (King's College London, UK)
- Bibliography
- Index.
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