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Objections and refutations -- Memory in oral tradition -- The construction of ritual text: the shift from oral to written channels -- The time of telling and the telling of time in written and oral cultures -- Writing and revolt in Bahia -- Derrida among the archives of the written and the oral -- Canonization in oral and literature traditions -- Technologies of the intellect: writing and the written word -- Power and the book.
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In this collection of nine essays, Jack Goody explores his view of writing as a transforming technology, charting the differences between cultures with writing and those without in such practices as historical record keeping, religious ceremony, and the telling of time.
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