Literacy is essentially about the control of information, memory, and belief, and with colonialism in Southern Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy mon

Religious scholars take up various questions relating to the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of colonized people in antiquity, and expl

Essays in this collection explore the complex relationship between text and orality in colonial situations of antiquity from Homer, Plato, and Mithras to the He

This work draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, enthnomusicology and African language studies in an analysis of the complex function