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The Consequences of Literacy
Abstract
The accepted tripartite divisions of the formal study both of mankind's past and present are to a considerable extent based on man's development first of language and later of writing. Looked at in the perspective of time, man's biological evolution shades into prehistory when he becomes a language-using animal; add writing, and history proper begins. Looked at in a temporal perspective, man as animal is studied primarily by the zoologist, man as talking animal primarily by the anthropologist, and man as talking and writing animal primarily by the sociologist.
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- Authors
- Goody, J., & Watt, I.
- Venue
- Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1963-04
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 304-345
- ISSN
- 0010-4175 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-2999
- OpenAlex
- W1974081983
- Cited by
- 1,376
- References
- 38
- FWCI
- 49.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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