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Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies : orality, memory, and the transmission of culture / Lynne Kelly, LaTrobe University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Lynne, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistic paleontology.
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Oral tradition.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 276 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Primary orality in the archaeological context
- 2. Knowledge and power in oral cultures
- 3. Primary orality and oral mnemonic technologies
- 4. Material mnemonic technologies
- 5. Animal and plant knowledge in oral tradition
- 6. Time and space
- 7. Case study: The Yolngu system of knowledge
- 8. Case study: The Pueblo system of knowledge
- 9. Chaco Canyon in the ancestral Puebloan context
- 10. Poverty Point in the North American archaic context
- 11. Stonehenge in the British and Irish Neolithic context
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Cited references
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107059375
- 1107059372
- OCLC:
- 907145124
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