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Graduate Record 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ANTH 5480 - Literacy and Orality

Effective Start Date: 02/10/2014
This course surveys ethnographic and linguistic literature on literacy, focusing on the social meanings of speaking vs. writing (and hearing vs. reading) as opposed communicative practices, looking especially at traditionally oral societies.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Student Option