ISSN 2084–1418
The paper edition of the Anthropology of History Yearbook is the definitive version
2018, No. (11), Cultural History of Knowledge
Michał Rydlewski
Anti-Literacy Practices as a Factor of Changing Cultural Knowledge (anthropologist’ s of media remarks on the Peter Burke’ s A Social History of Knowledge)
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Keywords: anti-literacy practices, written culture, social history of knowledge, anthropology of media, Peter Burke.
Abstract: The author of this paper describes ideas of Peter Burke contained in his book by the title A Social History of Knowledge. An English Professor of cultural history believes, that they are resemblances between modern (since Gutenberg’ s Age) and contemporary attitude to the genesis, growing, accumulate and to pass the knowledge. Author discuss readers practices, modern student’s methods of accumulate knowledge and its memorization. He shows that some of them still exist in contemporary student’ s methods, but some burn out what is connected with process of substitute written culture by visual culture. That process is changing student’ s knowledge and their intellectual ability.
About Author:
MICHAŁ RYDLEWSKI - ethnologist, philosopher, literary scholar; Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Wrocław. E-mail: rydles@autograf.pl. ORCID 0000-0001-7055-1252.
