TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kersenboom, Saskia.
TI  - Word sound image: the life of the tamil text
SN  - 9781859730089
U1  - 398.0894811 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - BERG Publishers
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Tamil (Indic people)
KW  - South India
N1  - 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
ER  -