Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies
Lynne Kelly
ISBN: | 9781316365472 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 19 May, 2015 |
Format: | eBook |
Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies
Lynne Kelly
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
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