Literacy in traditional societies / edited by Jack Goody.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1975Edition: 1st pbk. editionDescription: 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521073456
- 9780521073455
- 0521290058
- 9780521290050
- 302.2244 21
- LC149 1975
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 302.2244 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A323777B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-338) and index.
Introduction / Jack Goody -- 1. The consequences of literacy / Jack Goody and Ian Watt -- 2. Implications of literacy in traditional China and India / Kathleen Gough -- 3. Literacy in a Buddhist village in North-East Thailand / S. J. Tambiah -- 4. Literacy in Kerala / Kathleen Gough -- 5. The transmission of Islamic learning in the Western Sudan / Ivor Wilks -- 6. Restricted literacy in Northern Ghana / Jack Goody -- 7. Literacy in a Nomadic Society: the Somali case / I. M. Lewiss -- 8. Astrology and writing in Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- 9. Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia / M. Meggitt -- 10. The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England / R. S. Schofield.
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