Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies Oral I Ty , Memory and the Transm I S S Ion of Culture

Abram, David, 51 acoustics, 45, See also Indicator 9 as mnemonic, 45 dominance of hearing, 48 enhancement, 12 Greek theatre, 231 memory aid, 12 of ditches, 231–232 Pueblo, 163 song, 47–49 Ad Herennium, 69 Africa. See also Luba; Yoruba !Kung, 33 Akan, 81, 227 animals as metaphor, 111 crocodiles, 106 Dogon, 22, 100 Fang, 17, 128 genealogical specialists, 127 Griot, 127 king lists, 128 knowledge elite, 25–26 Kpelle, 101, 111 LoDagaa, 6, 27, 32, 43 message sticks, 83 Paga crocodile ponds, 106 Senufo figurines, 90 Zulu healing, 110 Alexander Keiller Museum, 226 alliteration, 45 allusion, 46 American Indian. See Native American Anasazi, 167, See Chaco Canyon ancestors problems with term, 6 Ancestral Puebloan. See Chaco Canyon animals alligators, 104 as metaphor, 110 beyond food, 99 birds, 102–104 classification, 96–97, 98 crocodilians, 104–107 depth of knowledge, 97–100 Ghost bats, 96, 122 Pueblo oral tradition, 154 ravens and crows, 104 seasonal indicators, 99–100 stories, 95 Archaeologies of memory, 2 Arizona, 166 art abstract symbols, 73 aesthetics, 235 and orality, 235 geometric symbols, 73 impact of literacy, 235 role as mnemonic, 72 Yolngu, 139–142 Art of Memory. See Method of Loci Asia Hanunóo, 96 assonance, 45 astronomy, 10, 115–118, See also Indicator 7, See also timekeeping Inuit, 125 lukasa, 80 Method of Loci, 120 navigation, 121, 124, 125 Pueblo, 160–162 solstice observations, 117 Yolngu, 143 Australian Aboriginal, 237, See also Nungarrayi; Yolngu abstract symbols, 73 Anangu, 67 annual cycle, 115 Antikirinja, 70 Aranda, 44 Arrernte healing, 109 art, 72 astronomy, 11, 116, 120 birds, 102, 104 bogong moths, 57, 192 Boonwurung, 18 Boorong, 120 bora, 58 ceremony, 56 churinga. See tjuringa commentary on song, 44 coolamon, 84 corroborees, 49, 56, 58