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Published: 24th May 1993
ISBN: 9780521409643
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Published: 26th November 2004Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. These largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the past ten years by anthropologists and sociolinguists. Accounts of literacy practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society. The conclusions reached will be crucial for future researchers, and of interest to educators, developers and practitioners in the field.
"...the volume on the whole is excellent and can be highly recommended." The Modern Language Journal "This excellent volume...illustrates how widely the use of literacy varies from the popular conception of literacy in Western circles." Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
| List of figures and tables | p. ix |
| List of contributors | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Introduction: the new literacy studies | p. 1 |
| The incorporation of literacy into the communicative repertoire | p. 23 |
| Conceptions and uses of literacy in a Papua New Guinean village | p. 30 |
| Literacy and feelings: the encoding of affect in Nukulaelae letters | p. 62 |
| The uses of schooling and literacy in a Zafimaniry village | p. 87 |
| Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone | p. 110 |
| Local literacies and national politics: ethnicity, gender and religion | p. 135 |
| Literacy and cultural identity in the Horn of Africa: the Somali case | p. 143 |
| Gender, language and the politics of literacy | p. 156 |
| Literacy development and ethnicity: an Alaskan example | p. 176 |
| The letter and the spirit: literacy and religious authority in the history of the Aladura movement in western Nigeria | p. 198 |
| Literacy variation in urban settings | p. 221 |
| Vernacular writing: varieties of literacy among Philadelphia high school students | p. 228 |
| Collaborative writing: appropriating power or reproducing authority? | p. 247 |
| Literacy and social process: a community in transition | p. 272 |
| Code switching and mode switching: community interpreters and mediators of literacy | p. 294 |
| Index | p. 315 |
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ISBN: 9780521409643
ISBN-10: 0521409640
Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral & Literate Culture
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 24th May 1993
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.06
x 1.85
Weight (kg): 0.47
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