Essays on the complex relationship between oral and literate modes of communication.

Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.

In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, sub

In the African context, there exists the 'myth' that orality means tradition. Written and oral verbal art are often regarded as dichotomies, one excluding the o

How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual me