Lettres Mortes. Essai D'anthropologie Inversée by Pierre Deleage
Essai d'anthropologie inversée
An essay that inverts the ethnographic gaze to examine Western literacy and its ideologies by tracing moments when writing—letters, scripts, bureaucratic records—fails to circulate or be interpreted. Through case studies from colonial encounters to modern institutions, it shows how inscriptions depend on fragile social practices, revealing the power dynamics, misunderstandings, and translation limits that arise when texts are detached from their contexts, and how these breakdowns expose the assumptions underpinning knowledge, authority, and communication.
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