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The power of the written tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goody, Jack
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [2000]
Series:	Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Subjects:	Written communication. Oral tradition. Language and culture. Literacy. Language and logic.

Table of Contents:

Objections and refutations
Memory in oral tradition
The construction of ritual text: the shift from oral to written channels
The time of telling and the telling of time in written and oral cultures
Writing and revolt in Bahia
Derrida among the archives of the written and the oral
Canonization in oral and literature traditions
Technologies of the intellect: writing and the written word
Power and the book.