The Ethnography of Reading

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Loud Cows......Page 6
1. Introduction, Jonathan Boyarin (1-9)......Page 8
2. Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe, Daniel Boyarin (10-37)......Page 17
3. Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era, Susan Noakes (38-57)......Page 45
4. The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England, Nicholas Howe (58-79)......Page 65
5. Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading, Johannes Fabian (80-97)......Page 87
6. The Presence of the Name: Reading Scripture in an Indonesian Village, James N. Baker (98-138)......Page 105
7. Literacy, Orality, and Ritual Practice in Highland Colombia, Diana Digges and Joanne Rappaport (139-155)......Page 146
8. Japanese Spirit and Chinese Learning: Scribes and Storytellers in Pre-modern Japan, H. Mack Horton (156-179)......Page 163
9. Textual Interpretation as Collective Action, Elizabeth Long (180-211)......Page 187
10. Voices Around the Text: The Ethnography of Reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem, Jonathan Boyarin (212-237)......Page 219
11. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom, Greg Sarris (238-269)......Page 245
12. Afterword, Brian Stock (270-......Page 277
Index......Page 284
Back Cover......Page 293