Word, Sound, Image - The Life of the Tamil Text

Informationen zum Autor Saskia Kersenboom Associate Professor in Linguistic Anthropology,University of Amsterdam Klappentext This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This is the opposite of Western communication through publication which is a static representation of knowledge. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery. She argues that interactive multimedia is the first Western communication form to represent oral traditions effectively. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction - Texts, Data, Knowledge Representation - Part I: Habitus - Text - World - Performer - Part II: Praxis - Speech Artefact - Form - Content - Part III: Representation - Reproduction - Objectification - Translation - Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: S. Kersenboom, Saskia Kersenboom, Kersenboom Saskia, Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story, Kersenboom Saskia
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1995
• EAN: 9781859730089
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-008-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Explorations on Anthropology,; Explorations in Anthropology; Explorations on Anthropology,
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Oral History, Dance, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, India, Western Europe, Western Continental Europe