2/15/2005

Test on Tuesday the 22nd!!!! It will cover everything that we had said or done in class and the following readings: Yates Chapters 1-3, Ong chapters 1-3, and Kane Prologue and chapter 1. Read and review notes!!!

Remember, Salman Rushdie will be here on March 7th. If you have not gotten your tickets yet, DO SO IMMEDIATELY! They may already be gone.

ONG PASSAGES
*pg 15 "There is hardly an oral culture or a predominantly oral culture left in the world today that is not somehow aware of the vast complex of powers forever inaccessible without literacy, This awareness is agony for persons rooted in primary orality...We have to die to continue living." The stories of primal oral culturesencountering literate cultures are disappearing. There are hardly any preliterate societies which have not been exposed.

*****I just typed out all the rest of these notes and the internet connection was lost so I lost the notes....I will give the basic information.****

*pg 74 Discusses that we privlige speech over writing, or do we?

KANE
*pg 19-22 Discusses the shift from hunter-gatherer to agriculture as also a shift from state of harmony with Nature to an attempt to corral and subjugate it. Property, boundaries, fences.
pg 42-43 The story of the Caribou. Know it and how it relates to the oral culture's way of explaining phenomena and what it says about a literate culture's inability to understand some things.

Inventory your bedroom!!!!

Sorry this one lacks depth. :O(