TY  - BOOK
AU  - Street,Brian V.
TI  - Cross-cultural approaches to literacy
T2  - Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture
SN  - 0521401674
AV  - LC149 .C74 1993
U1  - 302.2244 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Multicultural education
KW  - Multiculturalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the new literacy studies; Brian Street --; The incorporation of literacy into the communicative repertoire --; Conceptions and uses of literacy in a Papua New Guinean village; Don Kulick, Christopher Stroud --; Literacy and feelings: the encoding of affect in Nukulaelae letters; Niko Besnier --; The uses of schooling and literacy in a Zafimaniry village; Maurice Bloch --; Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone; Caroline H. Bledsoe, Kenneth M. Robey --; Local literacies and national politics: ethnicity, gender and religion --; Literacy and cultural identity in the Horn of Africa: the Somali case; I.M. Lewis --; Gender, language and the politics of literacy; Kathleen Rockhill --; Literacy development and ethnicity: an Alaskan example; Stephen Reder, Karen Reed Wikelund --; The letter and the spirit: literacy and religious authority in the history of the Aladura movement in western Nigeria; Peter Probst --; Literacy variation in urban settings --; Vernacular writing: varieties of literacy among Philadelphia high school students; Miriam Camitta --; Collaborative writing: appropriating power or reproducing authority?; Amy Shuman --; Literacy and social process: a community in transition; Gail Weinstein-Shr --; Code switching and mode switching: community interpreters and mediators of literacy; Mike Baynham
N2  - "Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. These largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the past ten years by anthropologists and sociolinguists. Accounts of literacy practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society. The conclusions reached will be crucial for future researchers, and of interest to educators, developers and practitioners in the field."--Publisher description
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