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Cody, Francis
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The Light of Knowledge : : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / \ Francis Cody
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Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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1 online resource (xviii, 250 pages) : : illustrations, charts, figures, tables
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9780801469022
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: 0801469023
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: 9780801452024
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: 0801452023
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: 9780801479182
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: 0801479185
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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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. ?A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally.??Anthropological Quarterly
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Ebooks-- UML
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Literacy-- Political aspects-- India-- Tamil Nadu
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Literacy-- Political aspects
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Literacy programs-- India-- Tamil Nadu
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Literacy programs
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Rural conditions
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The Light of Knowledge, Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
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