Tomás Mario Kalmar organized Paulo Freire’s visit to Sydney in 1974 and served as his interpreter. He has helped to launch a wide variety of innovative educational projects for children and adults, ranging from Su Casa Migrant Head Start in southern Illinois to California State University Monterey Bay. Currently he is Co-Director, Community Learning Center, International Sonoran Desert Alliance, USA.

• Gracias/Acknowledgments Note on the Second EditionPrologue1 No Man’s Land I Líricamente II The Death of Leonardo III Doló Dasnt Protect As 2 The Cobden Glossaries I Constructing a Hybrid Alphabet II A Kind of Algebraic Notation III New Contexts, New Texts, Same Moves IV A Scene of Writing: The Village Hall V The Cobden Glossaries 3 Some Laugh, Others Frown I "Is This Text a Joke, or What?" II Cracking the Ninth-Century Code III Three Ways of Reading a Cobden Glossary IV Freirean Dilemmas V Wallerstein on the Case of the Cobden Glossaries VI Conclusion 4 Making It Legal:The Social Construction of Hybrid Alphabets Strictly Speaking: Emic vs Etic II Writing in the No-Man’s Land Between Languages III How to Legitimize a Hybrid Alphabet Epilogue: A Game as Old as the Alphabet? CommentariesOpting for the vernacularPeter ElbowTranslanguaging and abecedarios ilegalesOfelia GarcíaWays with letters and soundsJames Paul GeeThe power of the single caseHervé VarenneEthnomethodology and mestizaje: the Cherán ConnectionLuis Vázquez León PanchaanKaren VelasquezAfterwordTomás Mario KalmarList of ContributorsReferences Author Index Subject Index