@ARTICLE{Rakoczy_Marta_Writing,_2014, author={Rakoczy, Marta}, number={No 4}, journal={Kultura i Społeczeństwo}, pages={93-109}, howpublished={online}, year={2014}, publisher={Komitet Socjologii PAN}, publisher={Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN}, abstract={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.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Writing, the Body, and Ritual — An Outline of School Initiation in Literacy}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115921/PDF/2014-4-07.pdf}, keywords={anthropology of education, literacy ritual, literacy practices, literacy theory}, }