Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies : orality, memory, and the transmission of culture / Lynne Kelly, LaTrobe University.

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, showing how the link between power and the control of knowl...

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Main Author: Kelly, Lynne, 1951- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a 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 American Archaic context -- 11. Stonehenge in the British and Irish Neolithic context -- 12. Conclusions. 
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650 0 |a Linguistic paleontology. 
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