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| TITLE: |
Literacy and the Notion of Person on Nukulaelae Atoll / Niko Besnier |
| AUTHOR: |
Besnier, Niko |
| PUBLISHED: |
American Anthropologists. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
570-587 p.; 28 cm. |
| NOTES: |
American Anthropologist, v.93 no.3 (19910901): 570-587 |
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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. |
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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. |
| SUBJECT: |
Literacy--Developing countries. |
| SUBJECT: |
Literacy--Western Polynesia--Nukulaelae Atoll. |
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