The anthropology of writing [electronic resource] : understanding textually-mediated worlds / edited by David Barton and Uta Papen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.Description: xi, 240 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.2/244 22
LOC classification:
  • P211.7 .A58 2010eb
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Contents:
What is the anthropology of writing? / David Barton and Uta Papen -- Acts of writing: when writing is doing / Béatrice Fraenkel -- Updating a Biomedical Database: writing, reading and invisible contribution / David Pontille -- Eruptions of interruptions: managing tensions between writing and other tasks in a textualized childcare workplace / Karin Tusting -- Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension / Nathalie Joly -- Vernacular spaces on the web / David Barton -- Keeping a note-book in rural Mali: a practice in the making / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Writing in healthcare contexts: patients, power and medical knowledge / Uta Papen -- Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall -- Lawful and unlawful writings in Lyon in the 17th century / Anne Béroujon -- Sexuality in black and white: Instructions to write and Scientia sexualis in the 19th and 20th century / Philippe Artières.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is the anthropology of writing? / David Barton and Uta Papen -- Acts of writing: when writing is doing / Béatrice Fraenkel -- Updating a Biomedical Database: writing, reading and invisible contribution / David Pontille -- Eruptions of interruptions: managing tensions between writing and other tasks in a textualized childcare workplace / Karin Tusting -- Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension / Nathalie Joly -- Vernacular spaces on the web / David Barton -- Keeping a note-book in rural Mali: a practice in the making / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Writing in healthcare contexts: patients, power and medical knowledge / Uta Papen -- Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall -- Lawful and unlawful writings in Lyon in the 17th century / Anne Béroujon -- Sexuality in black and white: Instructions to write and Scientia sexualis in the 19th and 20th century / Philippe Artières.

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