| In the age of television and the Internet, we are not returning to the preliterate, but descending into the postliterate. |
|
| For example, Hutchins showed that the preliterate Micronesians employed an abstract navigational system that used the stars symbolically. |
|
| In a preliterate world, there's no distinction between children and adults. |
|
| In preliterate agricultural societies, religion suffuses every aspect of life, from the family to the workplace. |
|
| In ancient times, even in preliterate times, they must have been recorded in some form or another. |
|
| In the preliterate days and among the peasants much later, folk songs, legends, poetry, jokes, and riddles were important artistic expressions. |
|
| To ensure exchanges of information and to maintain contact, most societies even preliterate ones granted messengers safe-conduct. |
|
| They are trying to move from a primitive, preliterate colonial past into an industrialized future with no time for an intermediate present. |
|
| The remarkable funeral seems to emerge from a collective preliterate tradition whose origins are African and whose inspiration to freedom arises from the natural world. |
|
| Their individual and collective endeavors were thwarted by the machinations of powerful men, institutions, and a tradition-bound, preliterate society. |
|
| Among more advanced preliterate societies, there may be a single paramount tribal chief with coercive authority. |
|
| He travelled to a remote, preliterate culture to ensure that the subjects had not seen Western photographs or films, and so could never have learned Western emotions. |
|
| The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral history poetic traditions. |
|
| Many remain preliterate and, at the national or international level, the names of tribes and information about them is extremely hard to obtain. |
|
| Not everywhere has the oral literature impinged so directly on the written as in the works of Homer, which almost presents a transition from the preliterate to the literate world. |
|
| In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk music requires learning by ear, although notation has evolved in some cultures. |
|
