James Collins, Richard Blot

Literacy and Literacies

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Produktbeschreibung

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521596619
• ISBN-10: 0521596610
• Artikelnr.: 21923640

Autorenporträt

James Collins is Professor of Anthropology and of Reading at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses (1998), as well as of book and journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Foreword Brian V. Street
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: texts, power and identity
2. The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development and self
3. Situated approaches to the literacy debate
4. Literacies and power in modern nation states: Euro-American lessons
5. Literacies and identity formation: American cases
6. Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations
7. Conclusion: literacy lessons - beginnings, ends and implications
Notes
References
Index.