The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty

This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped inspire, can offer contemporary scholars interested in understanding the place of reading in social life. The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty brings together new research and critical reflections from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who have kept their ears tuned to the voices in and around the texts they encountered and constructed in the process of bringing the ethnography of reading into the twenty-first century. Rather than operating from universalist assumptions about how people interact with and make meaning from written texts, each of the present contributors draw in one way or another on the theoretical, methodological, and creative legacies of The Ethnography of Reading. Under the broad umbrella of ethnographic reader studies, they collectively explore new relations between texts, social imagination, and social action.

Contributes to expanding the archive of known reading practices Helps make the field of reader studies more ethnographic, more international, and more interdisciplinary Features an afterword from Jonathan Boyarin, the editor of The Ethnography of Reading

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Matthew Rosen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, USA. His earlier publications concern media practices and public culture in postcolonial and postsocialist cities. He is the author most recently of Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe (2022).

Klappentext

This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped inspire, can offer contemporary scholars interested in understanding the place of reading in social life. The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty brings together new research and critical reflections from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who have kept their ears tuned to the voices in and around the texts they encountered and constructed in the process of bringing the ethnography of reading into the twenty-first century. Rather than operating from universalist assumptions about how people interact with and make meaning from written texts, each of the present contributors draw in one way or another on the theoretical, methodological, and creative legacies of The Ethnography of Reading. Under the broad umbrella of ethnographic reader studies, they collectively explore new relations between texts, social imagination, and social action.

Inhalt

1: Introduction: The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty.- 2: Reading as Self-Making: Examining the Contemporary Literate Practices of Adolescent Girls in Singapore.- 3: The Labor of Reading: Hardship and Moralization of Reading in the Contemporary Dujing (Reading Classics) Movement.- 4: Reading Foucault, Becoming an Intellectual in Seoul.- 5: Brazilian Black Activists' Anthropophagous Manifesto: Reclaiming Blackness in Afro-Brazilian History and Culture.- 6: A Language-and-Materiality Approach to Reading: Reinvigorating Thirty-Year-Old Questions.- 7: Vital Literatures: Anthropologies of Religion and The Ethnography of Reading.- 8: Six Ways of Reading Bibles: Ethnographic Reflections, 2003-2022.- 9: Reading and Praxis among U.S. Marxist Activists.- 10: Shared Reading as a Spatio-Temporal Literary Technology.- 11: Reading Context: On Ethnography of Translation and Commentary.- 12: Reading to Share: An Ethnography of Public Book Discussion Groups.- 13: Reading Delhi: From the Literary Field to Metro Trains.- 14: The Unfinished Work of NYC Graffiti Writers During the Covid-19 Pandemic. **

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