What can ethnographic studies tell us about the consequences of literacy?

Comparative Education

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-271

  Maddox, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNICITY; LITERACY;

EID: 34249792924     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050060701362607     Document Type: Review

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