The Ethnography of Reading Cantrell bestselling author and President Obama’s

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The Ethnography of Reading Cantrell bestselling author and President Obama’sWriting, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars. The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of "literacy" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written communication. Some investigate reading in exotically cross