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25.05.04 Jenny Söderlind Discuss the relationship between literacy, orality and sacred texts with particular reference to South Asian society. Traditionally, the relationship between literacy and orality has been regarded in what have are arguably quite simplistic and ethnocentric terms. Lack of literacy was viewed as signifying a lack of a literary tradition and an inability to think in abstract, objective terms. Oral traditions were generally given little attention, and even when they were, they were at times subjected to sweeping generalisations. It is not until relatively recently that alternative approaches have been put forward and the perspective towards orality has changed. This new view rejects the dichotomy between 'literate' and 'oral' societies and their supposed distinctive modes of thought, challenges the idea of literacy as a neutral and purely technological entity, and attempts to explore literate and oral expression as part of their own social context. I will begin by exploring...

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