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

• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y., : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2/244
• Soggetto topico: Written communication - Research; Written communication - Social aspects; Composition (Language arts) - Research; Rhetoric - Research
• Altri autori: BartonDavid <1949-> PapenUta
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The anthropology of writing
• ISBN: 1-282-57686-0; 9786612576867; 1-4411-3671-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815113203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II