Literacy, Emotion and Authority Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll

Name: Literacy, Emotion and Authority Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
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ISBN: 9780521485395

ISBN-10: 0521485398

ISBN-13: 9780521485395

Edition: 1995

Authors: Niko Besnier, Judith T. Irvine, Bambi Schieffelin, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Joel Kuipers

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Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Introduction



The ethnographic context



The domains of reading and writing



Letter writing and reading



Letters, economics and emotionality



Between literacy and orality: the sermon



Literacy, truth and authority



Conclusion