The Anthropology of Writing: Understanding Textually-Mediated Worlds

by David Barton (Editor), UtaPapen (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $254.12

  Includes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.