Text, Writing, School in Anthropological Perspective
Text, Writing, School in Anthropological Perspective

Author(s): Marta Rakoczy
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: text and writing;anthropological perspective;school;creation;exercise books
Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to reveal anthropological structures in the following categories: text and writing; the categories that nowadays require cultural, historical and institutional relativization. The paradigm being maintained is that writing is a mental, individualistic creation and a freely chosen way of life which is a result of late modernity. Moreover, even today it is not the only paradigm and nor is it universally acceptable. This is emphasized and developed upon in the text by using examples from current school exercise books. School – as the main institution of literate initiation, where one experiences one’sfirst mass contact with literature – is an institution in which the practice of writing is regulated by school breaks and is specifically managed for capitalist society’s dual division of time. Writing is specifically a tool which is a well-defined, perceptual and social discipline. However, this discipline does not exclude creativity, as long as we go by its late-modern definition.

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