Azala

The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India /

Erakutsi beste bertsioak (3)

Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These...

Deskribapen osoa

Gorde:
Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Cody, Francis, 1976- (Egilea)
Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa eBook
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Saila:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Gaiak:
Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India)
Rural conditions.
Literacy programs.
Literacy > Political aspects.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Anthropology.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Literacy > Political aspects > India > Tamil Nadu.
Literacy programs > India > Tamil Nadu.
India > Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu (Inde) > Conditions rurales.
Tamil Nadu (India) > Rural conditions.
Electronic books.
Sarrera elektronikoa:Full text available:
Etiketak: Etiketa erantsi
Etiketarik gabe, Izan zaitez lehena erregistro honi etiketa jartzen!
Aurkibidea:
  • Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside
  • On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism
  • Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency
  • Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy
  • Search for a method : the media of enlightenment
  • Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature
  • Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.

Antzeko izenburuak