Saskia Kersenboom

Word, Sound, Image

The Life of the Tamil Text

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 142mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780854964246
• ISBN-10: 085496424X
• Artikelnr.: 20974909

Autorenporträt

Saskia Kersenboom Associate Professor in Linguistic Anthropology,University of Amsterdam

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Texts, Data, Knowledge Representation
Part I: Habitus
Text
World
Performer
Part II: Praxis
Speech Artefact
Form
Content
Part III: Representation
Reproduction
Objectification
Translation
Conclusion