Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia is an exciting new contribution to the field of Inner Asian studies, offering a fascinating account of literacy in Mongolia from the early socialist to the contemporary period. This book will appeal to both Mongolian studies scholars and social scientists interested in literacy and education more broadly. The book offers an original view into the twentieth-century socialist period in Mongolia from the perspective of new literacy studies, providing a detailed glimpse into recent history that is often only cursorily described in contemporary anthropological accounts. Phillip P. Marzluf employs a theory of literacy as social practice, giving detailed attention to unconventional and often undocumented literacies, such as the Buddhist literacies found within rural pastoralist “home school” settings, letter writing, newspapers, and public signs and advertisements. This sensitive and critical approach cuts through dominant paradigms of both literacy and education and succeeds in...

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