Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Transcription conventions and orthography
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The ethnographic context
- 3 The domains of reading and writing
- 4 Letter writing and reading
- 5 Letters, economics, and emotionality
- 6 Between literacy and orality: the sermon
- 7 Literacy, truth, and authority
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index of Tuvaluan words
- General index
4 - Letter writing and reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Transcription conventions and orthography
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The ethnographic context
- 3 The domains of reading and writing
- 4 Letter writing and reading
- 5 Letters, economics, and emotionality
- 6 Between literacy and orality: the sermon
- 7 Literacy, truth, and authority
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index of Tuvaluan words
- General index
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- Literacy, Emotion and AuthorityReading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll, pp. 72 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995