Literacy in traditional societies - Goody, Jack (London Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1968)
Introduction / by Jack Goody -- The consequences of literacy / Jack Goody and Ian Watt -- Implications of literacy in traditional China and India / Kathleen Gough -- Literacy in a Buddhist village in north-east Thailand / S.J. Tambiah -- Literacy in Kērala / Kathleen Gough -- The transmission of Islamic learning in the Western Sudan / Ivor Wilks -- Restricted literacy in northern Ghana / Jack Goody -- Literacy in a nomadic society: the Somali case / I.M. Lewis -- Astrology and writing in Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia / M. Meggitt -- The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England / R.S. Schofield.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-338) and index.
Keywords: Literacy