Intense Human Alienation & Unity @ all time/space.





Despite the erudition and insight of many coauthors, I trust there is little danger that "the ethnography of reading" will become a code word for any new orthodoxy in theory or in research practice.

JF's essay - the closest of all to a programmatic overview - ends with an acute reminder that as we concern ourselves with the ethnography of reading we are doing precisely what we study.

Therefore, "reflections on the current place of reading in anthropological (or literary) studies of literacy should neither be elevated nor dismissed as 'meta'-problems."

This insight points ironically to one of the gaps that persist even in this (collaged) collection - we still need an ethnography of that "solitary reader" whose stereotyping we decry, bur who we spend much of our waking time being.

GS acknowledges this as he recalls sitting in the UCLA library, reading a transcription of Kashaya legends for the first time, and gradually beginning to realize that it wasn't necessarily the case that "university people weren't Indian and what was Indian wasn't in books" - that he himself was becoming "a university person who is Indian."

Again and again we thus conclude to be living in the most revolutionary time ever: we remember stories and experiences 'of old', contribute our sense of being human social beings to a growing sense of 'living apart together', and sharing all we are & 'have' with those who appreciate it ...

For lack of better 'labels' I still prefer to call 'IT' "g d": intense unity AND 'alienation', i.o.w. THE typical human evolutionary condition 'now/here'
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