The Ethnography of Reading

TitleThe Ethnography of Reading
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1993
Series EditorBoyarin, Jonathan
Number of Pages285 pp.
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CityBerkeley, CA
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780520079557
Annotation

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