{"product_id":"the-ethnography-of-reading-9780520081338","title":"The Ethnography of Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting  the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years  is only half of what we call literacy. The other half  reading  now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.  The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of \"literacy\" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written communication. Some investigate reading in exotically cross-cultural contexts. Some analyze the long historical transformation of reading in the West from a collective  oral practice to the private  silent one it is today  while others demonstrate that in certain Western contexts reading is still very much a social activity. The reading situations described here range from Anglo-Saxon England to contemporary Indonesia  from ancient Israel to a Kashaya Pomo Indian reservation.  Filled with insights that erase the line between orality and textuality  this collection will attract a broad readership in anthropology  literature  history  and philosophy  as well as in religious  gender  and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789751050293,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520081331","price":22.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520081338.jpg?v=1784696474","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ethnography-of-reading-9780520081338","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}