TY - BOOK AU - Goody,Jack TI - Literacy in traditional societies SN - 0521073456 AV - LC149 1975 U1 - 302.2244 21 PY - 1975/// CY - Cambridge [England] PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Literacy KW - Oral tradition KW - Communication and culture N1 - 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 ER -