The Ethnography of Reading

Contents: Placing reading : ancient Israel and medieval Europe / Daniel Boyarin Gracious words : Luke's Jesus and the reading of sacred poetry at the beginning of the Christian era / Susan Noakes The cultural construction of reading in Anglo-Saxon England / Nicholas Howe Keep listening : ethnography and reading / Johannes Fabian The presence of the name : reading scripture in an Indonesian village / James N. Baker Literacy, orality, and ritual practice in highland Colombia / Diana Digges and Joanne Rappaport Japanese spirit and Chinese learning : scribes and storytellers in pre-modern Japan / H. Mack Horton Textual interpretation as collective action / Elizabeth Long Voices around the text : the ethnography of reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem / Jonathan Boyarin Keeping slug woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom / Greg Sarris