anthropology of letter writing

[Laura Miller]

A few chapters that discuss literacy and writing are fond in two books edited by Marcia Farr:
Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City’s Neighborhoods (2004), and 	
Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago, 
both published by Erlbaum.




>>> "Kara Ja'Nice Crews" <kcrews at temple.edu> 06/21/06 10:37 PM >>>


Hello,

The anthropology of literacy is one of my research
areas...This is a partial listing of some sources. The
Prinsloo volume has a chapter on literacy brokers. F. Niyi
Akinnaso is another source.  The Kalman book will have
additional sources.

Bibliography


Akinnaso, F. Niyi
1981 The Consequences of Literacy in Pragmatic and Theoretical
Perspectives. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 8.3. pp.
163-199.

Besnier, Niko.
1995 Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on
a Polynesian Atoll. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Coulmas, Florian.
2003 Writing Systems: An Introduction to their Linguistic
Analysis. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP.

Street, Brian. Ed.
1993 Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP.

Prinsloo, M. and Breier, M. 1996. The Social Uses of Literacy.
Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa

Kalman, Judy.
Writing on the plaza : mediated literacy practice among
scribes and clients in Mexico City / Judy Kalman.
Imprint 	Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c1999.