Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107059372 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A creation story Bethe The subtitle of this mind-bending book is key for me. "Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture." In my own work, I've used geometry as a creation mnemonic in ancient Greek mythology. Gaia is "the Word," the beginning of creation. Mnemosyne, her daughter is Memory, the mistress of mnemonics. Her offspring are the nine dancing Muses--the arts and sciences. Lynne Kelly makes this a living tradition we can access--something that we can access as a human population to turn toward peace, cooperation, and self-respect. Especially in our schools.. Good stuff! Troy I've recently finished my first read of this book, written by Dr. Lynne Kelly, and a scholarly well-sourced work it is!It lays out a theory concerning the nature of certain archaeological findings, with no pseudoscience or other nonsense given serious attention, and those mentioned only in passing. It's a theory that draws analogies between the use of mnemonic technologies in modern non-literate (very, very different from being illiterate in literate societies) cultures, and the same use, with many commonalities across cultures, of those technologies to build and maintain sophisticated. A revolution in our understanding of the pragmatic uses of ancient monuments like Stonehenge Dr. William Hall Lynne Kelly’s book offers insights and connections that are likely to revolutionize our understanding of prehistoric complexes and monuments like Stonehenge (in Britain), Göbekli Tepe (SE Turkey), and similarly enigmatic structures around the world dating from when pre-literate hunter-gatherer societies were transitioning to the much more complex social systems of settled agrarian economies. She argues that Stonehenge and many other comparable sites were built as giant mnemonic tools (“theatres of memory” or “palaces of the mind”) to assist peoples tr
. About the Author Lynne Kelly is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Arts, Communication and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She is the author of ten books on education, one novel and three popular science titles. Kelly is interested in the question of how non-literate cultures memorise so much about their environment in the absence of writing, which has led her to research the mnemonic technologies of oral cultures
She is the author of ten books on education, one novel and three popular science titles. Kelly is interested in the question of how non-literate cultures memorise so much about their environment in the absence of writing, which has led her to research the mnemonic technologies of oral cultures. . Lynne Kelly is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Arts, Communication and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne
In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literature cultures.. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral c