Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text (Explorations in Anthropology)

by SaskiaKersenboom (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $50.25

  Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.

• New

  Hardcover
  1995

  $182.74

  Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.