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Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text

Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text

Kersenboom, Saskia

Paperback

Series: Explorations in Anthropology

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 1859730086
ISBN13: 9781859730089
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 1 1995
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This is the opposite of Western communication through publication which is a static representation of knowledge. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery. She argues that interactive multimedia is the first Western communication form to represent oral traditions effectively.

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