Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- BRIAN V. STREET --PART I -- Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education 19 -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Literacy, schooling and development: views of Rabari nomads, India 27 -- CAROLINE DYER AND ARCHANA CHOKSI -- 2 'Literacy - your key to a better future'? Literacy, reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia 40 -- UTA PAPEN -- 3 More than just chanting: multilingual literacies, ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea 61 -- MARTHA WAGAR WRIGHT -- 4 Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy: revisiting research homework in a north Indian village 78 -- PRITI CHOPRA -- PART II -- Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendas 93 -- Introduction 95 -- 5 Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia 103 -- SHEILA AIKMAN -- 6 Another language, another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana 121 -- PAT HERBERT AND CLINTON ROBINSON -- 7 Literacy and the market: the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh 137 -- BRYAN MADDOX -- 8 Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links? 152 -- ANNA ROBINSON-PANT -- 9 Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China 171 -- REGIE STITES -- 10 Literacies, gender and power in rural Pakistan 188 -- SHIRIN ZUBAIR -- Afterword: problematising literacy and development 205 -- ALAN ROGERS --Index 223.