TY - JOUR N2 - This article is an analysis, based on school textbooks, of the norms governing literacy practices in elementary education. These latter are treated as a kind of ritual: the symbolic behaviour impacting not so much the manner of the mental representation of reality as the corporeal-perceptive organization of experience. The aim of the article is to show that (1) contrary to classic literacy theory, writing is not always a tec because in many situational and institutional contexts writing practices are not instrumental but ritual practices, and (2) writing is not solely a tool of the intellect corresponding to a set manner of conceptualizing the world, language, and the self, but also a kind of social tool for the discipline of the body: the acquiring of a certain corporeal-perceptive disposition. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115921/PDF/2014-4-07.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115921 PY - 2014 IS - No 4 EP - 109 KW - anthropology of education KW - literacy ritual KW - literacy practices KW - literacy theory A1 - Rakoczy, Marta PB - Komitet Socjologii PAN PB - Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN DA - 2014 T1 - Writing, the Body, and Ritual — An Outline of School Initiation in Literacy SP - 93 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/115921 T2 - Kultura i Społeczeństwo ER -