The Ethnography of reading /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Boyarin, Jonathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley ; Oxford : University of California Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Books and reading.
Literature and society.
Literacy.
Society in literature.
Livres et lecture.
Littérature et société.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Society in literature
Books and reading
Literacy
Literature and society
Lezen.
Antropologische aspecten.
Reading
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Placing reading : ancient Israel and medieval Europe / Daniel Boyarin
  • Gracious words : Luke's Jesus and the reading of sacred poetry at the beginning of the Christian era / Susan Noakes
  • The cultural construction of reading in Anglo-Saxon England / Nicholas Howe
  • Keep listening : ethnography and reading / Johannes Fabian
  • The presence of the name : reading scripture in an Indonesian village / James N. Baker
  • Literacy, orality, and ritual practice in highland Colombia / Diana Digges and Joanne Rappaport
  • Japanese spirit and Chinese learning : scribes and storytellers in pre-modern Japan / H. Mack Horton
  • Textual interpretation as collective action / Elizabeth Long
  • Voices around the text : the ethnography of reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem / Jonathan Boyarin
  • Keeping slug woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom / Greg Sarris.

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