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

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

Lynne Kelly

304 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showin...

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