Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9789004130432
Subjects: Oral communication; Social Science; Interior Design - General; Congresses; To 1500; Architecture; Religious aspects; Sociology; Religion; Mediterranean Region; Christianity - History - General; Written communication; Colonies; Ethnic Studies - General; History
First sentence: In a narrative cameo reflecting on a botched visit to an itinerant and illiterate Nambikwara group in the Amazon, Claude Levi-Strauss notes that the primary function of writing in the evolution of humankind has not been intellectual in nature.