TY - JOUR
AU - Graff, Harvey J.
AB - General civilizations where writing is not by means of various efforts to contend with not only exception- ally significant but also especially slippery issues in alphabetical letters—Chinese and Japanese, for his quest to grasp the complex interactions among example" (p. 1). This is certainly the most useful modes of communication, manners of cognition, definition of literacy, and no one who has studied practices of expression, patterns of social and the question would discard such measures. But cultural organization, and questions of cultural there is no consideration of the meaning of the and historical transformation. In this volume, the ability to count, measure, or read. Such skills central "interfaces," in complex interrelations, are learned in a primary school of the Third French those between the written and oral within societ- Republic surely differed in meaning from those ies, between cultures or societies with or without learned by a child in Sri Lanka in the 1950s. Both writing, and within the "linguistic life" of individ- Harvey Graff and Susan Hill Cochrane have uals. shown the ambiguities of literacy in development, Historians, regardless of specialization, may historically and in the contemporary developing learn much from Goody—as he has tried to learn world. 
TI - Jack Goody. The Interface between the Written and the Oral. (Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture, and the State.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1987. Pp. xxi, 328. Cloth $44.50, paper $14.95
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/94.4.1055
DA - 1989-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/jack-goody-the-interface-between-the-written-and-the-oral-studies-in-FQex50sML8
SP - 1055
EP - 1056
VL - 94
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -