GS220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jacques Derrida, Umbrella Term, Clifford Geertz
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Gs220 week 7: does the meaning of a text depend on its. Umbrella term to refer to a range of genres (types/standardized forms) of communicaion such as songs, stories, folktales, dances, jokes, epics, proverbs where oral transmission plays a prominent role in ensuring their coninuity. Wide variaion in telling; no standard" as in a text that all deviate from. Walter ong, harold innis, marshall mcluhan, michel foucault, walter. Saw socieies based on verbal media as radically and universally diferent from those that rely on texts and wriing. Reinforces an evoluionary framework (primiive vs. modern, illiterate vs. literate) Reality is that nowadays most socieies use a variety of media; has been the case for a long ime. Literacy does not replace orality in simple or nonlinear ways; may have an impact but need to invesigate case by case. Indigenous peoples in north america commiing to text doesn"t mean things aren"t perform; indigenous writers incorporate characterisics of oral performance into their wriing.
