Literacy in Traditional Societies

Introduction Jack Goody 1. The consequences of literacy Jack Goody and Ian Watt 2. Implications of literacy in traditional China and India Kathleen Gough 3. Literacy in a Buddhist village in North-East Thailand S. J. Tambiah 4. Literacy in Kerala Kathleen Gough 5. The transmission of Islamic learning in the Western Sudan Ivor Wilks 6. Restricted literacy in Northern Ghana Jack Goody 7. Literacy in a Nomadic Society: the Somali case I. M. Lewiss 8. Astrology and writing in Madagascar Maurice Bloch 9. Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia M. Meggitt 10. The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England R. S. Schofield Bibliography Index.