UID:
almafu_9959235160902883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 285 p.) :
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ill.
Edition:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
0-520-91343-4
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0-585-13556-8
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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LOUD COWS --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe --
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3. Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era --
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4. The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England --
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5. Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading --
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6. The Presence of the Name: Reading Scripture in an Indonesian Village --
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7. Literacy, Orality, and Ritual Practice in Highland Colombia --
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8. Japanese Spirit and Chinese Learning: Scribes and Storytellers in Pre-modern Japan --
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9. Textual Interpretation as Collective Action --
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10. Voices Around the Text: The Ethnography of Reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem --
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11. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom --
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12. Afterword --
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INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-08133-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07955-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520913431
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