Cover page of Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies on a Kindle Paperwhite sitting on a wooden table
Read - Reading: Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture by Lynne Kelly (Cambridge University Press)
Chapter 3: Primary orality and oral mnemonic technologies
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Lots of evidence and description of the literature relating to attributing too much to religion within indigenous societies. I love the descriptions of an alternate view of what the cultural anthropology may be showing us about what these societies were really doing.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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