Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic 'consequences' of literacy, these largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the last ten years. Accounts of literacy practices in a variety of locations, including Great Britain, the United States, Africa, the South Pacific and Madagascar, illustrate how these practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the traditional view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society.

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"...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

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Non-Fiction Education Educational Strategies & Policy Multicultural Education Language & Linguistics Linguistics Literacy Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs Teaching of Students with English as a Second Language TESOL

Sociolinguistics Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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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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