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Introduction: the new literacy studies Brian Street Part I. The Incorporation of Literacy Into The Communicative Repertoire: l. Conceptions and uses of literacy in a Papua New Guinean village Don Kulick and Christopher Stroud 2. Literacy and feelings: the encoding of affect in Nukulaelae letters Niko Besnier 3. The uses of schooling and literacy in a Zafimaniny village Maurice Bloch 4. Arabic literacy and enlightenment among the Mende of Sierra Leone Caroline Bledsoe and Kenneth M. Robey Part II. Local Literacies and National Politics: Ethnicity, Gender and Religion: 5. Literacy and cultural identity in the Horn of Africa: the Somali case I. M. Lewis 6. Gender, language and the politics of literacy Kathleen Rockhill 7. Literacy, development and ethnicity: an Alaskan example Stephen Reder and Karen Reed Wikelund 8. The letter and the spirit: literacy and religious authority in the history of the Aladura movement in western Nigeria Peter Probst Part III. Literacy Variation in Urban Settings: 9. Vernacular writing: varieties of literacy among Philadelphia high school students Miriam Camitta l0. Collaborative writing appropriating power or reproducing authority? Amy Shuman ll. Literacy and social process: a community in transition Gail Weinstein-Shr l2. Mediators of literacy and community interpreters Mike Baynam.