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    Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture

     
    Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture

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    This book offers new insights into the purpose of ancient monuments through an analysis of the methods by which oral cultures maintain a vast store of pragmatic knowledge. Lynne Kelly considers how the Australian Aboriginal, Native American, African, Pacific, and European cultures stored and transmitted knowledge in the absence of writing.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781107059375
    Medium:
    Bound edition
    Number of pages:
    300
    Publication date:
    2015-07-23
    Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781107059375
    Medium:
    Bound edition
    Number of pages:
    300
    Publication date:
    2015-07-23
    Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press

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