TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cody,Francis
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Light of Knowledge : : Literacy Activism and the Politics of  Writing in South India / 
T2  - Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
SN  - 9780801469022
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India)
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Literacy programs
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Educational Policy & Reform
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Administration
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Sociology and anthropology
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - India
KW  - Tamil Nadu
KW  - Tamil Nadu (Inde)
KW  - Conditions rurales
KW  - Tamil Nadu (India)
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/43595/
ER  -