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"A nonliterate basketball person could figure out that he was hot," Ward said.

Bond people pose the same problem to a cultural anthropologist as a nonliterate tribe deep in the Amazon.

Second was orality, a feature that might explain Pentecostalism's success in evangelizing nonliterate cultures.

"But because low culture has traditionally been nonliterate and unattended to by the higher punditry, it tends to vanish without much of a trace.

As chiefly administrative responsibilities widened, nonliterate chiefs had to hire literate assistants, chiefdom clerks.

Although this rich intellectual heritage is familiar to numerous Africans, many Westerners still believe that Africa had only an oral, nonliterate culture.

If I Google correctly (IIGC), there was a similar study done on literate vs. nonliterate societies.

By contrast, nonliterate families were disproportionately vulnerable to the Jim Crow policies and social exploitation that often locked them out of the American mainstream for generations on end.

The Game Machine obliged: "The Game is both a participant and a spectator sport, aside from its basic purpose: the instruction of history in a nonliterate society.

The historical significance of falconry within lower social classes may be underrepresented in the archaeological record, due to a lack of surviving evidence, especially from nonliterate nomadic and non-agrarian societies.

And all the way through the book I was trying to keep in view the question of how the nonliterate aspects of performance practice and so on, the oral aspects of music-making, always go with it.

But Lindstrom pointed out that it was the only way to gain insight into a nonliterate culture, and that if one took its inherent imprecision into account, one could still extrapolate certain understandings from it.

Such persons became increasingly isolated from their nonliterate Somali-speaking brethren, but because the secondary schools and most government posts were in urban areas the socioeconomic and linguistic distinction was in large part a rural-urban one.

Such microcomputer technology is available at relatively low cost, Dr. Bernard said, "so that virtually every nonliterate people of the world can develop their own machine-readable data bank about their own culture, and can have their own independent publishing capability in support of native ethnography."