CONTENTS
LOUD COWS / BY URSULA K. LEGUIN = ⅶ
1. Introduction / Jonathan Boyarin = 1
2. Placing Reading : Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe / Daniel Boyarin = 10
3. Gracious Words : Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era / Susan Noakes = 38
4. The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England / Nicholas Howe = 58
5. Keep Listening : Ethnography and Reading / Johannes Fabian = 80
6. The Presence of the Name : Reading Scripture in an Indonesian Village / James N. Baker = 98
7. Literacy, Orality, and Ritual Practice in Highland Colombia / Diana Digges ; Joanne Rappaport = 139
8. Japanese Spirit and Chinese Learning : Scribes and Storytellers in Pre-modern Japan / H. Mack Horton = 156
9. Textual Interpretation as Collective Action / Elizabeth Long = 180
10. Voices Around the Text : The Ethnography of Reading at Mesivta Tiferet Jerusalem / Jonathan Boyarin = 212
11. Keeping Slug Woman Alive : The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom / Greg Sarris = 238
12. Afterword / Brian Stock = 270
INDEX = 277
