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

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...

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Главный автор: Cody, Francis, 1976- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс eКнига
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Оглавление:
  • 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.