Titelangaben
Alber, Erdmute ; Kölbl, Carlos:
Literacy and illiteracy, its relational other : A key topic for collaboration between psychology and anthropology.
In: Ethos.
(4 Juni 2025)
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- e70015.
ISSN 1548-1352
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70015
Angaben zu Projekten
Projektfinanzierung: |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2052/1—390713894. |
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Abstract
Collaborative work between anthropology and psychology on literacy and particularly on illiteracy helps to rethink general disciplinary backgrounds, concepts, and complex empirical phenomena in the field of (il)literacy. Since the formational period of the social sciences, the concept of literacy has been key to the self-understandings of anthropology and psychology. However, it was long neglected in empirical research. Nonetheless, implicit and explicit assumptions about the role, history, and distinctiveness of writing systems and their presence or absence in various societies were central to disciplinary understandings of societies, individuals, and humanity. To this day, literacy and especially its relational other—illiteracy—have not received the attention they deserve from either empirical or conceptual research. This article begins with their histories in anthropology and psychology and argues that illiteracy, in particular, has been neglected in their debates. It then offers a framework for literacizing and illiteracizing, conceptualizes both illiteracy and literacy as multiple and relational phenomena, and discusses methodologies and preliminary results from our collaborative research project on processes of literacizing and illiteracizing in urban literate environments in Benin and Bolivia. It concludes with a discussion of the potential of research on literacy and illiteracy as a model for transdisciplinary work, especially a more intensive collaboration between our disciplines.
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Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
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Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
Keywords: | Benin; Bolivia; illiteracy; literacy; multiplicity; relationality; transdisciplinarity |
Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Psychologie > Lehrstuhl Psychologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carlos Kölbl Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber Profilfelder > Emerging Fields > Kulturbegegnungen und Transkulturelle Prozesse |
Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
Themengebiete aus DDC: | 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
Eingestellt am: | 06 Jun 2025 05:18 |
Letzte Änderung: | 06 Jun 2025 05:18 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/93888 |