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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 eff...
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oapen-20.500.12657-315662021-04-30T10:16:12Z The Light of Knowledge Cody, Francis Anthropology the enlightenment movement neoliberal government south asia Activism Age of Enlightenment India Literacy Pedagogy Pudukkottai Tamil language Tamil Nadu bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography 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 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:39:59Z 2020-04-01T13:39:59Z 2013-09-13 book 626994 OCN: 864276484 9780801479182;9780801469022;9780801469015 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31566 eng Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge application/pdf n/a 626994.pdf Cornell University Press 10.7591/cornell/9780801452024.001.0001 100462 10.7591/cornell/9780801452024.001.0001 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780801479182;9780801469022;9780801469015 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ithaca, NY 100462 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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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