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Tables of Contents for Writing Ourselves
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Shirley Brice Heath
Series Preface
xv
Acknowledgements
xvii
About the Authors
xxi
Introduction: Literacy Theory and Mass-Observation
1
2
Literacy Practices and Social Life
3
2
Invisibility of Literacy Practices of Ordinary People
5
3
Literacy Practices and Mass-Observation
8
4
The Mass-Observation Project
12
1
Theorising Literacy: Mass-Observation Project as a Telling Case
13
2
Outline of the Book
15
1
How We Have Used the Words ``Mass-Observation'' and Related Terms
15
6
SECTION I: AN HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF MASS-OBSERVATION
Introduction to Section I
19
2
Mass-Observation from 1937 to 1981
21
22
The Historical Origins: Social and Political Contexts
21
11
The Recruitment of the Panel of Volunteers
32
6
The Years Between 1950 and 1980
38
1
The Rehabilitation of Mass-Observation
39
4
Mass-Observation Revived: Writing Britain
43
36
The Re-Launch
43
4
Publicity and Funds, 1981-85
47
4
After the Hiatus, From 1986
51
1
How People Join Mass-Observation: Advertising and Recruitment
52
8
Becoming a Mass-Observer
60
4
The Directives
64
6
Organisation and Classification of Data
70
1
Changes and Developments
71
2
Connections with Other Projects
73
1
The Contemporary Mass-Observation Project and the Original Mass-Observation
73
6
Mass-Observation and Anthropology
79
40
British Anthropology in the Early Twentieth Century
80
2
Mass-Observation as Anthropology at Home
82
3
Malinowski and Mass-Observation
85
3
Firth and Mass-Observation
88
5
Limitations of the Anthropologists' Critiques
93
2
Pocock and Mass-Observation
95
8
Contemporary Anthropology: The Reflexive Turn
103
3
Mass-Observation as Case Studies
106
2
Mass-Observation as Literacy Practices
108
11
SECTION II: DIALOGUES AND WRITING PRACTICES
Introduction to Section II
115
4
Framing the Dialogues: Literacy Practices
119
18
Reading Mass-Observation and the Nature of Knowledge
121
6
Gathering, Analysing and Writing Up the Data
127
5
Constructing the Dialogues
132
2
Final Comments on Constructing Dialogues
134
3
Dialogues About Literacy Practices and the Mass-Observation Project
137
76
Mrs Wright (W632)
139
6
Mrs Friend (F1373)
145
11
Mr Barrow (B1106)
156
7
Mrs Safran (B2197)
163
10
Mrs Martin (M1498)
173
7
Mr Richards (M1593)
180
7
Ms McPhail (M2493)
187
8
Mr Russell (R1671)
195
6
Mr Reed (R450)
201
12
SECTION III: ORDINARY PEOPLE WRITING
Introduction to Section III
211
2
The Uses of Writing
213
24
Power, Personhood and Crossings
237
44
Writing Ourselves and Writing Britain
281
12
Bibliography
293
12
Appendix Ai: Bibliography of Original Mass-Observation Books
305
2
Appendix Aii: Recent Anthologies and Edited Material
307
2
Appendix Aiii: Mass-Observation Occasional Papers Series
309
4
Appendix Aiv: About the Mass-Observation Archive
313
2
Appendix Bi: Lists of Topics Covered in Directives Since 1981
315
4
Appendix Bii: Sample Directives
319
12
Appendix Biii: Introductory Information for New Recruits
331
4
Appendix Biv: Pseudonyms and Numbers of Correspondents Cited
335
2
Appendix C: The Spring Directive 1991
337
6
Appendix D: Interview Guidance Sheet
343
4
Author Index
347
4
Subject Index
351