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Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge |
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Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment. |
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Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy. |
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In English. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Arivoi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India)
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Arivoi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India)
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Literacy programs -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Literacy -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Tamil Nadu (India) -- Rural conditions.
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Tamil Nadu (Inde) -- Conditions rurales.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Anthropology.
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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Literacy -- Political aspects
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Literacy programs
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Rural conditions
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India -- Tamil Nadu
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRwcvG864WmV9rRqtpGB
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cody, Francis, 1976- Light of knowledge. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013 9780801452024 (DLC) 2013009771 (OCoLC)836557537 |
| ISBN |
0801469023 (electronic bk.) |
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9780801469022 (electronic bk.) |
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9780801469015 |
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0801469015 |
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0801452023 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0801479185 |
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9780801452024 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780801479182 |
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10.7591/9780801469022 doi |
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