The anthropology of writing
Subtitle: understanding textually-mediated worlds
By: edited by David Barton and Uta Papen.
Contributors: Barton, David, 1949-; Papen, Uta.
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441108852
Subjects: Written communication -- Research; Written communication -- Social aspects; Composition (Language arts) -- Research; Rhetoric -- Research
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What is the anthropology of writing? / David Barton and Uta Papen; title: Acts of writing: when writing is doing / Béatrice Fraenkel; title: Updating a Biomedical Database: writing, reading and invisible contribution / David Pontille; title: Eruptions of interruptions: managing tensions between writing and other tasks in a textualized childcare workplace / Karin Tusting; title: Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension / Nathalie Joly; title: Vernacular spaces on the web / David Barton; title: Keeping a note-book in rural Mali: a practice in the making / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye; title: Writing in healthcare contexts: patients, power and medical knowledge / Uta Papen; title: Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall; title: Lawful and unlawful writings in Lyon in the 17th century / Anne Béroujon; title: Sexuality in black and white: Instructions to write and Scientia sexualis in the 19th and 20th century / Philippe Artières.