The Ethnography of reading / edited by Jonathan Boyarin.

Other author Boyarin, Jonathan.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
Descriptionvi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Placing reading : ancient Israel and medieval Europe / Daniel Boyarin -- Gracious words : Luke's Jesus and the reading of sacred poetry at the beginning of the Christian era / Susan Noakes -- The cultural construction of reading in Anglo-Saxon England / Nicholas Howe -- Keep listening : ethnography and reading / Johannes Fabian -- The presence of the name : reading scripture in an Indonesian village / James N. Baker -- Literacy, orality, and ritual practice in highland Colombia / Diana Digges and Joanne Rappaport -- Japanese spirit and Chinese learning : scribes and storytellers in pre-modern Japan / H. Mack Horton -- Textual interpretation as collective action / Elizabeth Long -- Voices around the text : the ethnography of reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem / Jonathan Boyarin -- Keeping slug woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom / Greg Sarris.
Local noteLittle-348572--305131055834
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92034690
ISBN0520079558 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520079557 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520081331 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780520081338 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks Z1003 .E87 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold