The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Awards:   Winner of Cowinner of the 2014 Edward Sapir Book Prize (Soci.
Author:   Francis Cody
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
ISBN:  

9780801479182


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of Cowinner of the 2014 Edward Sapir Book Prize (Soci.

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Author:   Francis Cody
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801479182


ISBN 10:   0801479185
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Introduction: Of Light, Literacy, and Knowledge in the Tamil Countryside 1. On Being a ""Thumbprint"": Time and Space in Arivoli Activism 2. Feminizing Enlightenment: The Social and Reciprocal Agency 3. Labors of Objectification: Words and Worlds of Pedagogy 4. Search for a Method: The Media of Enlightenment 5. Subject to Citizenship: Petitions and the Performativity of Signature Epilogue: Reflections on a Time of Charismatic Enlightenment Notes Works Cited Index"

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In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody moves away from the conventional modes of literacy studies and situates an ethnography of literacy activism within a broader anthropological framework that allows for new approaches and fresh questions. Ritty Lukose, New York University, author of Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India


<p> In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody moves away from the conventional modes of literacy studies and situates an ethnography of literacy activism within a broader anthropological framework that allows for new approaches and fresh questions. Ritty Lukose, New York University, author of Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India


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Francis Cody is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto.

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