The Ethnography of reading / edited by Jonathan Boyarin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyarin, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Literature and society.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 285 p.) : ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LOUD COWS

1. Introduction

2. Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe

3. Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era

4. The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England

5. Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading

6. The Presence of the Name: Reading Scripture in an Indonesian Village

7. Literacy, Orality, and Ritual Practice in Highland Colombia

8. Japanese Spirit and Chinese Learning: Scribes and Storytellers in Pre-modern Japan

9. Textual Interpretation as Collective Action

10. Voices Around the Text: The Ethnography of Reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem

11. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom

12. Afterword

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520913431

0520913434

9780585135564

0585135568

OCLC:

1163879141