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| Title: | Literacy in traditional societies |
| Editor: | Goody, Jack |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1968 |
| Pages: | 349 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521073456; 0521290058 |
| Geographic term: | developing countries |
| Subjects: | reading traditional society literacy |
| Abstract: | A series of case studies on the impact of writing, both 'traditional' and 'modern', upon the development of non-literate societies at different levels of sophistication. Among the collection of ten essays, four are devoted to Africa: I. Wilks - the transmission of Islamic learning in the western Sudan. J. Goody - restricted literacy in northern Ghana. I.M. Lewis - Literacy in a nomadic society: the Somali case. M. Bloch - Astrology and writing in Madagascar. |
