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The Ethnography of Reading

The Ethnography of Reading

The Ethnography of Reading
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The Ethnography of Reading Paperback - 1993

by Jonathan Boyarin (Editor)

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University of California Press. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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  • Title The Ethnography of Reading
  • Author Jonathan Boyarin (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 285
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1993-07-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A11T-00816
  • ISBN 9780520081338 / 0520081331
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 6.62 x 0.75 in (22.78 x 16.81 x 1.91 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature and society, Books and reading
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92034690
  • Dewey Decimal Code 028.9

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Reader reviews for The Ethnography of Reading

From the publisher

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.

The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of "literacy" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written communication. Some investigate reading in exotically cross-cultural contexts. Some analyze the long historical transformation of reading in the West from a collective, oral practice to the private, silent one it is today, while others demonstrate that in certain Western contexts reading is still very much a social activity. The reading situations described here range from Anglo-Saxon England to contemporary Indonesia, from ancient Israel to a Kashaya Pomo Indian reservation.

Filled with insights that erase the line between orality and textuality, this collection will attract a broad readership in anthropology, literature, history, and philosophy, as well as in religious, gender, and cultural studies.

From the jacket flap

"A very satisfying, diverse treatment of a topic that has been ignored because it has been hard to treat."George E. Marcus, Rice University"

About the author

Jonathan Boyarin is Visiting Scholar at the Center for Studies of Social Change, New School for Social Research. He is the author of Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory (1992).
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