TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins, James, 
TI  - Literacy and literacies:  texts, power, and identity
SN  - 9780521596619
U1  - 302.224 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - 	New York : 
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
N1  - Introduction: texts, power and identity --
; The literary thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development, and self --
; Situated approaches to the literacy debate --
; Literacies and power in modern nation states: EuroAmerican lessons --
; Literacies and identity formation: American cases --
; Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations --
; Conclusion: Literacy lessons: beginnings, ends, and implications
N2  - Literacy and Literacies offers a unique, comprehensive survey of both classical and current (mainly anthropological) literature in the field of literacy studies, combined with in-depth critical discussion of particular cases. It explores questions of power, cultural form, and historical process as they are raised by and developed in studies of literacy, and draws on the history of literacy, critical education studies, and the anthropology of literacy, to develop a new synthesis
ER  -