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“Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too.”

Reason Action Words Oral Cultures

Book:Sun & Steel

Source: Sun & Steel

“It was the encounter between the printed page and the oral culture, of which he was one embodiment, that led Menocchio to formulate -first for himsel, later for himself, later for his fellow villagers, and finally for the judges- the "opinions ... (that) came out of his head.”

History Reading History Oral Cultures

Book:The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Source: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

“As the number of oral cultures in the world has diminished, interest in them has grown, and one of the most intriguing questions is whether there might be such a thing as an ‘oral way of seeing’, a worldview common to oral peoples that might be different in some generalizable way from the worldview of people in cultures with writing.”

History Perspective Storytelling Worldview And Perception Oral Cultures Way Of Seeing Things

Book:Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Source: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia