Literacy, Emotion and Authority
Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
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- Author: Niko Besnier, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Date Published: August 1995
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- isbn: 9780521485395
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In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual.
Read more- A major contribution to our understanding of the ways in which specific kinds of literacy are embedded in the socio-cultural context
- Offers a unique combination of ethnographic details and theoretical concerns in this subfield of anthropology
- Of interest to scholars in anthropology, education, psychology and sociolinguistics
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"...exceptionally rich in its fine reviews of both theory and case material in the anthropology of literacy, in its deep treatment of the situation on Nukulaelae, and in its demonstration of the way in which attention to literacy permits engagement with major anthropological issues about the construction of person and society. The book is well produced, with glossary and index, and is illustrated with maps and photographs....it would be appropriate in a wide range of upper-division and graduate courses." Journal of Anthropological Research
See more reviews"...Besnier has given us a rich appreciation of how literacy interacts with social categories and communicative processes on Nukulaelae and beyond." Sarah Lund Skar, Anthropological Quarterly
"I certainly hope that Besnier's response to this criticism is to say that these data will be the subject of future ethnographic analyses, work that I look forward to wth great interest and high expectations." Richard J. Parmentier, American Anthropologist
"Niko Besnier's Literacy, emotion, and authority is a brilliant and painstaking ethnographic study of literacy on Nukulaelae Atoll Tuvalu (formerly the Ellice Islands." Kenneth M. George, Cultural Survival Quarterly
"Besnier's volume masterfully negotiates the complexities of textual analysis, meticulous contextualization of literacy practices within a framework of affiliated oral communication." Larry Lake, The Contemporary Pacific
"Niko Besnier's Literacy, emotion and authority is abrilliant and painstaking ethnographic study of literacy on Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands)....Niko Besnier has produced a probing and exceedingly useful study of the highest caliber." Kenneth M. George, Cultural Survival Quarterly
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- Date Published: August 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521485395
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The ethnographic context
3. The domains of reading and writing
4. Letter writing and reading
5. Letters, economics and emotionality
6. Between literacy and orality: the sermon
7. Literacy, truth and authority
8. Conclusion.
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