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preliterate
has definitions from the field of anthropology
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[ adjective ] not yet having acquired the ability to read and write
Used in print (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary_study in the development of conscience - most_of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life , or , for the theologians of_course , to the influence of religion . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (anthropology) used of a society that has not developed writing
Synonyms Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The place of religion in the simple , preliterate societies is quite definite ; as a complex it fits into the whole social_organization and functions dominantly in every part of_it . Related terms |
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