ISBN:
0-520-91343-4
,
0-585-13556-8
,
978-0-520-91343-1
,
978-0-585-13556-4
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 285 pages).
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
028/.9
Keywords:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
;
Books and reading
;
Literacy
;
Literature and society
;
Lezen
;
Antropologische aspecten
;
Books and reading
;
Literature and society
;
Literacy
;
Lesen.
;
Kulturvergleich.
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Lesen
;
Kulturvergleich
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - 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. - 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
DOI:
10.1525/9780520913431
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