by Jonathan Boyarin · University of California Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780520081338
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«The Ethnography of Reading» is the collection of essays on reading edited by Jonathan Boyarin, published by University of California Press in paperback.
Collective volume by anthropologists and literary critics on the act of reading in different eras and cultures. It analyzes the shift in Western reading from a collective and oral practice to a private and silent one, and shows that in certain contexts it remains social. Cases range from Anglo-Saxon England to contemporary Indonesia.
Volume of 285 pages in English, with bibliography and index. Published in July 1993.
Recommended for students and researchers of anthropology, literature, history, and philosophy interested in the history of reading.
