RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Love Letter, Magars, Sufi Poetry
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Re103 lesson 14: law leters and development in nepal; Laura ahearn (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Transformational potential of literacy 0 but not like goody. Focuses on how villagers applied their literacy skills to the new courtship practice writing love letters. Moved it from arranged marriage to captor marriage. This kind of literacy changed how villagers conceived of their own ability to act and how they assume responsibility for given events. Magars: largest indigenous group in nepal; - shamanism, Buddhism, hinduism: ahearn does not talk much about this. Increasing literacy in the 1990s made love letters possible: gave people the idea of what it meant to be developed" (bikasi) vs. backward (pichhyadi) individual. Development discourse": referring to the articulation of concepts, theories, and practices of social change" and progress are created and reproduced. In jungaiu development discourse in various kinds of media.
