James Collins is Professor of Anthropology and of Reading at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses (1998), as well as of book and journal articles.
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Foreword Brian V. Street
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: texts, power and identity
2. The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development and self
3. Situated approaches to the literacy debate
4. Literacies and power in modern nation states: Euro-American lessons
5. Literacies and identity formation: American cases
6. Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations
7. Conclusion: literacy lessons - beginnings, ends and implications
Notes
References
Index.
