Brian Street
Biographic Data
| ID | 131000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Street |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Street |
| SIGNATURE | STREET B |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Anthropology Close to Home: The Case of Mass Observation in the United Kingdom
The Mass Observation Project has been closely linked with social anthropology since its foundation in the 1930s: both deal with themes such as the move to greater reflexivity, including ordinary people's reflections on everyday life; the issue of anthropology at home; and the epistemological shift to the interpretive paradigm. The crossover between the two fields also involves questions of reading and writing and of narrative involving perhaps a …
Meanings of literacy in the intersection of religious and secular practices: Examining local and global changes in a Brazilian bairro
This article contrasts data from two ethnographic studies carried out at different points in time with working class families in Trombetas, a bairro on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The first study was conducted from 1988 to 1991, and the second in 2009. We develop two main themes: (1) the changing meanings of literacy in relation to the shift from Catholicism to Neo-Pentecostalism; and (2) the growing use of new technologies and multi…
Anthropology Close to Home: The Case of Mass Observation in the U nited K ingdom
The Mass Observation project has been closely linked with social anthropology since its foundation in the 1930s: both deal with themes such as the move to greater “reflexivity,” including ordinary people's reflections on everyday life, the issue of “anthropology at home,” and the epistemological shift to the “interpretative paradigm.” The crossover between the two fields also involves questions of reading and writing and of narrative involving pe…
H eath, S hirley ( b . 1939)
Shirley Brice Heath has been one of the major figures in the bringing together of anthropology, ethnography, education, and community practice. In the early 1980s, she documented a ten‐year ethnography of literacy practices in the homes of children and their families living in three different communities in the Piedmont Carolinas
Language and Anthropology
This entry briefly reviews the various strands of development in this field over the years, in particular in the United Kingdom and United States. While the term “linguistic anthropology” will be familiar to many readers in the United States, the Royal Anthropological Institute in the United Kingdom has recently established a specialist committee, named “Language and Anthropology,” partly in an attempt to oversee the diverse range of topics inclu…
H ymes, D ell (1927–2009)
Dell Hymes has been one of the key figures in the anthropology of language and his work continues to be cited as a marker for work in this field. In particular, he helped, with others such as Gumperz, the move away from a Chomskyan formal view of language toward a more social practice perspective, making the case for ethnographic investigation into contrasting patterns of language use in speech communities. Other central concepts with which he is…
P ocock, D avid F rancis (1928–2007)
Pocock was a major figure in the shifts in social anthropology from a more “scientific” and functionalist approach to a more interpretative approach. In this he helped to reintroduce the potential for a more reflexive and humanistic anthropology; his own distinctive contribution was in developing the concept of “personal anthropology.” In that spirit the entry cross‐references the Mass Observation project, which Pocock directed for a while and wh…
Fiction, Anthropological Themes in
The ideas developed in anthropology since its nineteenth‐century founding have consistently also appeared in popular fiction and the link between these fields has been a source of fascination and research. What anthropology and popular fiction have had in common have been ideas about “other” societies, originally labeled as “primitive,” “the savage,” “exotic cultures,” and still referred to in many contexts as “developing.” This entry addresses t…
Academic Writing: Theory and Practice
In this paper I attempt to locate the study of academic writing in the broader field of Literacies as Social Practice. I begin with a brief summary of recent theories of Literacies as Social Practice and then recount some of the ethnographic methods for studying these. I then discuss the application of these concepts to academic writing in Higher education, including university, not just school and support for teachers as well as students. This i…
Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education
Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices.
Ideology and Interaction: Debating Determinisms in Literacy Studies
In this exchange, Street and Collin debate the merits of the interaction model of literacy that Collin outlined in a recent issue of Reading Research Quarterly. Built as a complement and a counter to Street's ideological model of literacy, Collin's interaction model defines literacies as technologies that coevolve with sociocultural processes. This model of literacy draws on and adapts some of Goody's arguments about literacy's technological dime…
Vehicle Writings in an Iranian Context: The Interplay of Habitus and Field
The main objective of this paper is to problematize writings on vehicles in an Iranian context. Previous studies have indicated that vehicle stickers can be employed to express emotions and social status, political views, ideology and identity, and religious beliefs. However, very little has been done on this discursive practice in Iran. This study is the result of the content analysis of 122 vehicle writings collected from April 2011 to March 20…
Cultural Encounters
Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam? 2. The Hottentot Venus and the Western Man: Reflections on the Construction of Beauty in the West 3. Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and Arabs in some Post-colonial Film and Literature 4. Sandra Kogut's 'What do you think people think Brazil is?' Rephrasing Identity 5. Imagi-nation: the Media, Nation and Politics in Contemporary India 6. Projecting Africa. Two British Travel Fil…
Visual optics: Interpreting body art, three ways
Research methodology using visual narrative techniques opens up conceptual views for interpreting a wide range of visuals. In this article, the authors analyse tattoos on a subject’s body and approach the task from what they term three ‘optics’: social semiotics; sedimented identity in texts; and New Literacy Studies in relation to multimodality, drawing on ethnographic perspectives. Each optic illustrates how a woman constructs her identity thro…
Políticas e práticas de letramento na Inglaterra: Uma perspectiva de letramentos sociais como base para uma comparação com o Brasil
As políticas nacionais voltadas para o trabalho com o letramento em escolas, no Brasil e na Inglaterra, oferecem percepções interessantes tanto teóricas quanto práticas. Na Inglaterra, a Estratégia Nacional de Letramento (NLS) está embasada no que denominei de modelo 'autônomo' de letramento, uma abordagem universal, independente da cultura, baseada em habilidades. Há críticas a esse modelo, embora ele continue a ser bastante utilizado. No Brasil…
Literacy in Theory and Practice: Challenges and Debates Over 50 Years
In this article, as I draw upon articles in Theory Into Practice (TIP) over the past 50 years, I highlight the tension between different theoretical perspectives on the learning of literacy and actual practice in classrooms, and associated with this, the shift in definitions of literacy over time. I conclude by pointing to the future of literacy, particularly with respect to how these themes might be dealt with as new literacies, including those …
Society Reschooling
This essay offers a commentary on how the relationship between language and literacy practices in and out of school has been conceptualized. It draws upon two new books in the field. Shirley Brice Heath's new book, Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life , which makes use of rich ethnographic accounts of children's educational and literacy development across three generations, following her initial study of families in …
Literacy inequalities in theory and practice: The power to name and define
Advancing anthropology in schools: The accreditation of the Anthropology A‐level (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The development of an Anthropology A Level represents a major forward movement for the discipline in this country. Now that the RAI has at last succeeded in having the course accredited for teaching in schools, from this September, it is timely to try to put this achievement into a longer historical context. I here briefly review the discipline's attempts over four decades to address the role of Anthropology in educational contexts outside of the…
Anthropology, Education and the Wider Public
Dimensões "escondidas" na escrita de artigos acadêmicos
Este artigo tem por objetivo descrever o desenvolvimento de um conjunto de conceitos funcionais que permitam a professores e alunos abordar questões relativas à escrita de artigos acadêmicos. Para tanto, baseia-se nas recentes contribuições teóricas das áreas denominadas Escrita no âmbito das Disciplinas (Writing in the Disciplines, WiD), Estudos dos Gêneros (Genre Studies) e Letramentos Acadêmicos (Academic Literacies), e considera se e como tal…
Perspectivas interculturais sobre o letramento
A Revista Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa é uma publicação da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Inclui estudos em Filologia e Linguística, com atenção ao seu valor para as investigações sobre a linguagem em geral e a língua portuguesa em particular. Os trabalhos cobrem linhas diversas, como a crítica textual, a paleografia, a codicologia, a linguística histórica, os estudos gramaticais,…
The "Academic Literacies" Model: Theory and Applications
Although the term academic literacies was originally developed with regard to the study of literacies in higher education and the university, the concept also applies to K–12 education. An academic literacies perspective treats reading and writing as social practices that vary with context, culture, and genre (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Street, 1984, 1995). The literacy practices of academic disciplines can be viewed as varied social practices asso…
At Last: Recent Applications of New Literacy Studies in Educational Contexts
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Islamophobia and Racism: A Response to Pnina Werbner, at 21[1]
Literacy in Theory and Practice
This book challenges conventional theories about literacy, and the practices which often arise from them. It attempts to provide a new perspective through which the variety of literacy practices across different cultures can be viewed and from which the practical issues that arise in specific litera.
Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach
This article addresses the issue of student writing in higher education. It draws on the findings of an Economic and Social Research Council funded project which examined the contrasting expectations and interpretations of academic staff and students regarding undergraduate students' written assignments. It is suggested that the implicit models that have generally been used to understand student writing do not adequately take account of the impor…
Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education
Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices.
The "Academic Literacies" Model: Theory and Applications
Although the term academic literacies was originally developed with regard to the study of literacies in higher education and the university, the concept also applies to K–12 education. An academic literacies perspective treats reading and writing as social practices that vary with context, culture, and genre (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Street, 1984, 1995). The literacy practices of academic disciplines can be viewed as varied social practices asso…
What's 'New' in New Literacy Studies? Critical Approaches to Literacy in Theory and Practice
Studies in Social Anthropology: Essays in Memory of E. E. Evans-Pritchard by His Former Oxford Colleagues
Políticas e práticas de letramento na Inglaterra: Uma perspectiva de letramentos sociais como base para uma comparação com o Brasil
As políticas nacionais voltadas para o trabalho com o letramento em escolas, no Brasil e na Inglaterra, oferecem percepções interessantes tanto teóricas quanto práticas. Na Inglaterra, a Estratégia Nacional de Letramento (NLS) está embasada no que denominei de modelo 'autônomo' de letramento, uma abordagem universal, independente da cultura, baseada em habilidades. Há críticas a esse modelo, embora ele continue a ser bastante utilizado. No Brasil…
Literacy inequalities in theory and practice: The power to name and define
Perspectivas interculturais sobre o letramento
A Revista Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa é uma publicação da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Inclui estudos em Filologia e Linguística, com atenção ao seu valor para as investigações sobre a linguagem em geral e a língua portuguesa em particular. Os trabalhos cobrem linhas diversas, como a crítica textual, a paleografia, a codicologia, a linguística histórica, os estudos gramaticais,…
Sociocultural Perspectives on Human Learning: An Introduction to Educational Anthropology
Literacy in Theory and Practice: Challenges and Debates Over 50 Years
In this article, as I draw upon articles in Theory Into Practice (TIP) over the past 50 years, I highlight the tension between different theoretical perspectives on the learning of literacy and actual practice in classrooms, and associated with this, the shift in definitions of literacy over time. I conclude by pointing to the future of literacy, particularly with respect to how these themes might be dealt with as new literacies, including those …
Society Reschooling
This essay offers a commentary on how the relationship between language and literacy practices in and out of school has been conceptualized. It draws upon two new books in the field. Shirley Brice Heath's new book, Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life , which makes use of rich ethnographic accounts of children's educational and literacy development across three generations, following her initial study of families in …
Anthropology, Education and the Wider Public
The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'Primitive' Society in English Fiction 1858-1920
Zande Themes: Essays Presented to Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard
Academic Writing: Theory and Practice
In this paper I attempt to locate the study of academic writing in the broader field of Literacies as Social Practice. I begin with a brief summary of recent theories of Literacies as Social Practice and then recount some of the ethnographic methods for studying these. I then discuss the application of these concepts to academic writing in Higher education, including university, not just school and support for teachers as well as students. This i…
Ideology and Interaction: Debating Determinisms in Literacy Studies
In this exchange, Street and Collin debate the merits of the interaction model of literacy that Collin outlined in a recent issue of Reading Research Quarterly. Built as a complement and a counter to Street's ideological model of literacy, Collin's interaction model defines literacies as technologies that coevolve with sociocultural processes. This model of literacy draws on and adapts some of Goody's arguments about literacy's technological dime…
Visual optics: Interpreting body art, three ways
Research methodology using visual narrative techniques opens up conceptual views for interpreting a wide range of visuals. In this article, the authors analyse tattoos on a subject’s body and approach the task from what they term three ‘optics’: social semiotics; sedimented identity in texts; and New Literacy Studies in relation to multimodality, drawing on ethnographic perspectives. Each optic illustrates how a woman constructs her identity thro…
Dimensões "escondidas" na escrita de artigos acadêmicos
Este artigo tem por objetivo descrever o desenvolvimento de um conjunto de conceitos funcionais que permitam a professores e alunos abordar questões relativas à escrita de artigos acadêmicos. Para tanto, baseia-se nas recentes contribuições teóricas das áreas denominadas Escrita no âmbito das Disciplinas (Writing in the Disciplines, WiD), Estudos dos Gêneros (Genre Studies) e Letramentos Acadêmicos (Academic Literacies), e considera se e como tal…
Anti-Racist Education: And Anthropology
Vehicle Writings in an Iranian Context: The Interplay of Habitus and Field
The main objective of this paper is to problematize writings on vehicles in an Iranian context. Previous studies have indicated that vehicle stickers can be employed to express emotions and social status, political views, ideology and identity, and religious beliefs. However, very little has been done on this discursive practice in Iran. This study is the result of the content analysis of 122 vehicle writings collected from April 2011 to March 20…
Advancing anthropology in schools: The accreditation of the Anthropology A‐level (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The development of an Anthropology A Level represents a major forward movement for the discipline in this country. Now that the RAI has at last succeeded in having the course accredited for teaching in schools, from this September, it is timely to try to put this achievement into a longer historical context. I here briefly review the discipline's attempts over four decades to address the role of Anthropology in educational contexts outside of the…
Reading, Writing, and Revisonism
The mullah, the shahname and the madrasseh
Zande Themes: Essays Presented to Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard
Studies in Social Anthropology: Essays in Memory of E. E. Evans-Pritchard by His Former Oxford Colleagues
The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'Primitive' Society in English Fiction 1858-1920
The Race Concept
The mullah, the shahname and the madrasseh
The Savage in Literature: Representations of "Primitive" Society in English Fiction, 1858-1920
First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and of the life of the so-called ‘primitive’ man. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature
The Challenge of the Primitives
The Savage in Literature; Representations of 'Primitive' Society in English Fiction 1858-1920
The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'Primitive' Society in English Fiction 1858-1920
Face Values
Pasture and Politics: Economics, Conflict and Ritual Among Shahsevan Nomads of Northwestern Iran
Sociocultural Perspectives on Human Learning: An Introduction to Educational Anthropology
Literacy in Theory and Practice
This book challenges conventional theories about literacy, and the practices which often arise from them. It attempts to provide a new perspective through which the variety of literacy practices across different cultures can be viewed and from which the practical issues that arise in specific litera.
The Human Story of 'The Human Story
Reading, Writing, and Revisonism
Anti-Racist Education: And Anthropology
The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society
The Origins of Western Literacy 1. From Writing to Literacy 2. Literacy's First Legacies: From Athens 3. ...to Rome, and Beyond Part Two: Before the Printing Press: The Middle Ages 2. Th Light of Literacy in the oDark AgesO 1. Fifth-Seventh Centuries 2. Seventh Century 3. Eighth Century 4. Ninth-Tenth Centuries 3. New Lights of Literacy and Learning: From the Tenth-Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries 1. Italy and Commercial Revolution 2. The Chu…
The Written Word: Literacy in Transition
At a time when new information technologies are beginning to challenge our typographic culture with a transition toward a new secondary orality, the impact of the written word on our daily lives, our individual perceptions, and our culture has become a matter of intense debate. This collection employs an interdisciplinary approach in its examination of the social and cultural implications of literacy. The contributors discuss, among other issues,…
The Unspeakable: Discourse, Dialogue, and Rhetoric in the Postmodern World
Literacy and Orality
Reading Faces: Physiognomy Then and Now
Literacy and Nationalism
L'A. examine le lien entre le developpement de l'alphabetisation et les dimensions symbolique et culturelle des groupes ethniques consideres
Langues Et Identité Nationale En Suisse
L'A. examine le developpement du sentiment d'identite nationale en Suisse depuis le 18 e siecle jusqu'a nos jours
The New Literacy Studies: Implications for Education and Pedagogy
(1994). The New Literacy Studies: Implications for Education and Pedagogy. Changing English: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 113-126
The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for the New South Africa
This paper relates some of the developments, in what has come to be called the “New Literacy Studies” in recent years, to some of the debates currently taking place regarding the role of literacy and education in the new South Africa. The conceptual apparatus that is becoming familiar in the New Literacy Studies, and some of the problems it has raised, will be outlined. The paper will then consider the implications of viewing literacy in this way…
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