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Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll - Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Besnier, Niko (Yale University, Connecticut)
Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll - Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
Besnier, Niko (Yale University, Connecticut)
In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context.
254 pages, 7 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 24, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521480871 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 161 × 19 mm · 471 g |
| Language | English |