Literacy, Emotion and Authority - Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The ethnographic context; 3. The domains of reading and writing; 4. Letter writing and reading; 5. Letters, economics and emotionality; 6. Between literacy and orality: the sermon; 7. Literacy, truth and authority; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Niko Besnier, Niko (Yale University Besnier
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521480871
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48087-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures