The Light of Knowledge
Author: Cody, Francis
Added by: carl
Added Date: 2020-03-06
Language: eng
Subjects: Ethnology, Anthropology, the enlightenment movement, neoliberal government, south asia, Open Access Books
Publishers: Cornell University Press
Collections: IndiaCulture, JaiGyan
ISBN Number: 9780801452024 9780801479182 9780801469022 9780801469015
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 97.54 MB
PDF Size: 1.28 MB
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Description
Book Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Open access for this publication was provided by the following grant: Knowledge Unlatched - 100462
Abstract
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