Title The Light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / Francis Cody.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
	Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.
Summary	Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy.
Subject	Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India)
	Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India) (OCoLC)fst01604544
	Literacy programs -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
	Literacy -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
	Tamil Nadu (India) -- Rural conditions.
	EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
	EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
	Sociology and anthropology.
	Anthropology.
	Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
	EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
	EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
	Literacy -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00999880
	Literacy programs. (OCoLC)fst00999898
	Rural conditions. (OCoLC)fst01101474
	India -- Tamil Nadu. (OCoLC)fst01208735
Other Form:	Print version: Cody, Francis, 1976- Light of knowledge. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013 9780801452024 (DLC) 2013009771 (OCoLC)836557537
ISBN	0801469023 (electronic bk.)
	9780801469022 (electronic bk.)
	0801452023 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
	0801479185
	9780801452024 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
	9780801479182

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