num_pages: 256
description: In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual.
language: English
title: Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
titlecomplete: Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 16)
genres: Language, Anthropology
ratings_count: 9
series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
publisher: Cambridge University Press