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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815113203321

Titolo

The anthropology of writing : understanding textually-mediated worlds / / edited by David Barton and Uta Papen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010

ISBN

1-282-57686-0

9786612576867

1-4411-3671-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BartonDavid <1949->

PapenUta

Disciplina

302.2/244

Soggetti

Written communication - Research

Written communication - Social aspects

Composition (Language arts) - Research

Rhetoric - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is the anthropology of writing? / David Barton and Uta Papen -- Acts of writing: when writing is doing / Béatrice Fraenkel -- Updating a Biomedical Database: writing, reading and invisible contribution / David Pontille -- Eruptions of interruptions: managing tensions between writing and other tasks in a textualized childcare workplace / Karin Tusting -- Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension / Nathalie Joly -- Vernacular spaces on the web / David Barton -- Keeping a note-book in rural Mali: a practice in the making / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Writing in healthcare contexts: patients, power and medical knowledge / Uta Papen -- Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall -- Lawful and unlawful writings in Lyon in the 17th century / Anne Béroujon -- Sexuality in black and white: Instructions to write and Scientia sexualis in the 19th and 20th century / Philippe Artières.

Sommario/riassunto

We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions.  Writing has been the subject of much research but it is usually highly visible and valued



texts that are studied -- the work of novelists, poets and scholars. The studies included in this book examine every day acts of writing and their significance.  Ordinary quotidian writing may be viewed as mundane and routine, but it is central to how societies operate and the ways individuals relate to each other and to institutions. Examples discussed in the book including writing in area