Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780801452024
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0801469023
,
0801479185
,
0801452023
,
9780801479182
,
9780801469022
Series Statement:
Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Content:
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy
Content:
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801452024
Additional Edition:
Druck-Ausgabe
Additional Edition:
Print version Cody, Francis, 1976- Light of knowledge Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013
Language:
English
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