The logic of writing and the organization of society [electronic resource] / Jack Goody.
Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1986.
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| Series: | Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state.
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Table of Contents:
- Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture and the State: an introduction
- The word of God
- The concept of 'a'/'the' religion
- Boundaries
- Change
- Obsolescence
- Incorporation or conversion
- Universalism and particularism
- Cognitive contradictions in the general and the specific
- Specialization: priests and intellectuals
- Endowment and alienation
- The twin bureaucracies
- Organizational and structural autonomony
- The Great and Little Traditions: spirit cults and world religions
- Writing and religion in Ancient Egypt
- Writing and religion in other early civilizations
- Ritual and writing
- The word of mammon
- The origin of writing and the ancient economy
- Writing and the temple economy
- Writing and the palace economy
- Writing and the mercantile economy
- Writing and individual transactions
- Writing and the economy in Africa
- The state, the bureau and the file
- Bureaucracies
- The administration of early states with writing
- Internal administration
- External administration
- The administration of states without writing
- External administration
- Internal administration
- Writing in the colonial and national administrations
- Writing and the political process
- The letter of the law
- The definition of law
- Courts, constables and codes
- Sources of law and changes of rule
- Legal reasoning
- Court organization
- Legal forms
- The expansion of writing and law in medieval England
- The letter and the spirit of the law
- Ruptures and continuities.