Posted in History, Microfinance, Orality, The village, tagged England, fraud, Muktar Mai, thumbprint, Walter Ong on May 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
As observed by communications theorist Walter Ong, villagers in oral communities often don’t trust written text.
Ong cites a study of community decision-making from 12th century England. (Orality and Literacy, p. 95). Writing already had a long history in England, (more…)
Posted in Orality, The village, tagged literacy, microfinance, numeracy, oral culture, saving, technology, Walter Ong on December 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Rural villages in the developing world are oral cultures; that is cultures in which the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most people.
A village bank in Cambodia
villagefinance 