Literacy and literacies : texts, power, and identity / James Collins, Richard Blot.
"Literacy and Literacies offers a unique, comprehensive survey of both classical and current (mainly anthropological) literature in the field of literacy studies, combined with in-depth critical discussion of particular cases. It explores questions of power, cultural form, and historical proces...
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| Main Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ;
no. 22. |
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| Summary: | "Literacy and Literacies offers a unique, comprehensive survey of both classical and current (mainly anthropological) literature in the field of literacy studies, combined with in-depth critical discussion of particular cases. It explores questions of power, cultural form, and historical process as they are raised by and developed in studies of literacy, and draws on the history of literacy, critical education studies, and the anthropology of literacy, to develop a new synthesis."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521593565 9780521593564 0521596610 9780521596619 |