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Adi Tala
Ancient Sign
Author_Saskia Kersenboom
Bharata Natyam
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comparative textual traditions
cultural semiotics
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Human Attribution
Indian textual traditions
Inference Engine
Karnatic Music
knowledge representation systems
Love Birds
Make Up
Moha
multimodal communication
Music Space Time
oral performance studies
performative literacy
printed text
Raga Bhairavi
Reference Matter
Royal Courtesans
Sacer Ludus
Skt
South Indian Villages
Tamil Literature
Tamil Text
Tamil tradition
Tamil World
Tamilnadu
Vice Versa
Western textual traditions
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- ISBN 9780854964246
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This is the opposite of Western communication through publication which is a static representation of knowledge. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery. She argues that interactive multimedia is the first Western communication form to represent oral traditions effectively.
Saskia Kersenboom Associate Professor in Linguistic Anthropology,University of Amsterdam
