Literacy and the Notion of Person on Nukulaelae Atoll
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2459639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Besnier (0000-0001-6046-3494, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 570-587 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1991.93.3.02a00020 |
| OpenAlex | W2010961288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 50 |
Written discourse produced on Nukulaelae atoll of Western Polynesia falls principally in two categories: personal letters and religious sermons. Personal-letter writing is a highly affective communicative context, in which the vulnerable aspects of the person are highlighted. Sermons, in contrast, elaborate authoritarianism and directness. The divergent characteristics of Nukulaelae literacy practices are best understood in terms of their relationship to contexts of use, particularly to the notion of person articulated through them
Archaeology · Atoll · Authoritarianism · Context (archaeology · First person · Linguistics · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Literacy and Literacies
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The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
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The ascendance of the ideational model of literacy
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Involvement in linguistic practice
Affect and letter-writing
Effects on Academic Culture of Shifts from Oral to Written Traditions
Talking trash
Literacy and the Notion of Person on Nukulaelae Atoll
Father released me
Healing is a Done Deal
The interface between the written and the oral
Transformations of Polynesian culture
Sala’Ilua a Samoan Mystery
The Psychology of Literacy
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
A folk model of the mind
Habits of the heart
Narrative, literacy and face in interethnic communication
Literacy in Theory and Practice
Tahitians
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Category of the person
Ways with Words
Orality and Literacy
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
The Fall of Public Man
The literate revolution in Polynesia
Storytelling Rights
Une catégorie de l'esprit humain
Knowledge and passion
Tuhi
Ancient Literacy
Disentangling
From the Native's Point of View
Origins of Western Literacy
Une Categorie de L'Esprit Humain
Literacy in a Hunting-Gathering Society
Language and Affect
I have nothing to hide
The Linguistic Relationships of Spoken and Written Nukulaelae Registers
Literacy and feelings
Unnatural Emotions
Christianity, Cargo and Ideas of Self
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Literacy and the Notion of Person on Nukulaelae Atoll
Concepts of Individual, Self, and Person in Description and Analysis
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |