ISBN:
0521073456
,
9780521073455
,
0521290058
,
9780521290050
Language:
English
Pages:
349 S.
,
graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
Re-issued in this digitally printed version
Keywords:
Literacy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Schriftlichkeit
Abstract:
Consequences of literacy / Jack Goody and Ian Watt -- Implications of literacy in traditional China and India / Kathleen Gough -- Literacy in a Buddhist village in north-east Thailand / S.J. Tambiah -- Literacy in K#rala / Kathleen Gough -- Transmission of Islamic learning in the western Sudan / Ivor Wilks -- Restricted literacy in northern Ghana / Jack Goody -- Literacy in a nomadic society: the Somali case / I.M. Lewis -- Astrology and writing in Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia / M. Meggitt -- Measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England / R.S. Schofield
Description / Table of Contents:
Consequences of literacy / Jack Goody and Ian Watt -- Implications of literacy in traditional China and India / Kathleen Gough -- Literacy in a Buddhist village in north-east Thailand / S.J. Tambiah -- Literacy in Kērala / Kathleen Gough -- Transmission of Islamic learning in the western Sudan / Ivor Wilks -- Restricted literacy in northern Ghana / Jack Goody -- Literacy in a nomadic society: the Somali case / I.M. Lewis -- Astrology and writing in Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia / M. Meggitt -- Measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England / R.S. Schofield.
Note:
"First published 1968, first paperback edition 1975; re-issued in this digitally printed version, 2005
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Includes index
,
Bibliography: p. 326-338
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