ADJECTIVE
- not yet having acquired the ability to read and write
- used of a society that has not developed writing
How To Use preliterate In A Sentence
- ‘He had taken a very early portable video camera to film the Yanomami Healing, a preliterate Amazonian tribe,’ says Talen.
- In ancient times, even in preliterate times, they must have been recorded in some form or another.
- In a preliterate world, there's no distinction between children and adults.
- A cross-cultural survey of the use of ethanol in 139 largely preliterate human societies, showed that in all societies in which drinking was present in one sex but not in the other, it was present in males.
- The Greek myths evolved a long time before they were ever written down, and originated in the preliterate cultures pre-2300 BC.
- Of course, Durkheim did not directly transpose this rather slighting view of economic pursuits from the context of preliterate, tribal existence to that of more advanced societies.
- In preliterate agricultural societies, religion suffuses every aspect of life, from the family to the workplace.
- “The preliterate, meet the postliterate,” continued Savi, opening her hand as if introducing Odysseus to the other four. Ilium
- For example, Hutchins showed that the preliterate Micronesians employed an abstract navigational system that used the stars symbolically.
- He travelled to a remote, preliterate culture (the Fore, in New Guinea) to ensure that the subjects had not seen Western photographs or films, and so could never have learned Western emotions.
