The Ethnography of Reading

by Jonathan Boyarin

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Writing, 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.

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Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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The Ethnography of Reading

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Nonfiction, Anthropology, Literature Studies and Criticism, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
028.9Computer science, information & general worksLibrary & information sciencesReading and use of other information mediaCharacter of reading in libraries
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Z1003 .E87Bibliography, Library Science and Information ResourcesGeneral bibliographyBiography of bibliographers
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