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Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll »
Authors: Niko Besnier
ISBN-13: 9780521480871, ISBN-10: 0521480876
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Niko Besnier
Book Synopsis
A study of the development of literacy in the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations and tables | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Transcription conventions and orthography | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The ethnographic context | 21 |
| 3 | The domains of reading and writing | 52 |
| 4 | Letter writing and reading | 72 |
| 5 | Letters, economics, and emotionality | 93 |
| 6 | Between literacy and orality: the sermon | 116 |
| 7 | Literacy, truth, and authority | 140 |
| 8 | Conclusion | 169 |
| Notes | 188 | |
| References | 204 | |
| Index of Tuvaluan words | 226 | |
| General index | 228 |
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