Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies

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

Autor: Lynne Kelly

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In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures...

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Autor

Lynne Kelly

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

300

EAN

9781107059375

ISBN

1107059372

Enbook ID

09137900

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

812

Dimensiuni

185 x 264 x 24

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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, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral cultures, she demonstrates how early societies maintained a vast corpus of pragmatic information concerning animal behavior, plant properties, navigation, astronomy, genealogies, laws and trade agreements, among other matters. In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literate cultures.

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