Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone.
Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone.
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塞拉利昂门德人的阿拉伯语读写能力和保密性。
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1986
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Kenneth M. Robey
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C. Bledsoe;Kenneth M. Robey
研究了塞拉利昂门德人隐藏和操纵知识的阿拉伯语读写能力的社会用途。我们表明，那些门德人谁是阿拉伯语识字能力使用他们的技能很像土著精英使用传统的秘密知识：获得劳动和效忠的家属。相反的范式，将识字视为一种促进沟通的模式，我们表明，那些门德人谁是在阿拉伯语学习的知识，识字据称提供了危险的，因此，秘密。我们将这些模式与英语读写能力的使用以及阿拉伯语教育本身的近期变化进行对比。
The social uses of Arabic literacy for concealing and manipulating knowledge among the Mende of Sierra Leone are examined. We show that those Mende who are competent in Arabic literacy use their skills much like indigenous elite used traditional secret knowledge: to gain the labour and allegiance of dependants. In contrast to the paradigm which views literacy as a mode of facilitating communication, we show that those Mende who are learned in Arabic construe the knowledge to which literacy allegedly gives access as dangerous and, therefore, secret. We contrast these patterns with the uses of English literacy and with recent changes in Arabic education itself.