280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This is the opposite of Western communication through publication which is a static representation of... Read more
Contents: Introduction - Texts, Data, Knowledge Representation - Part I: Habitus - Text - World - Performer - Part II: Praxis - Speech Artefact - Form - Content - Part III: Representation - Reproduction - Objectification - Translation - Conclusion
Biography
Saskia Kersenboom Associate Professor in Linguistic Anthropology,University of Amsterdam
