Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society: Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

1st printing. Glossy pictorial boards, with some slight scatching. Crisp and unmarked. xxii, 358pp. -- Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address the role of technologies in social stability and change in traditional and modern societies. In this interdisciplinary text, scholars examine the ways in which local languages and cultural traditions, modes of production and communication, patterns of local knowledge and authority affect how people and cultures resist or accommodate demands for such change. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.