Why should Aboriginal peoples learn to write?
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable inscription of a sign’ (Of Grammatology). A sign is the union between signifier and signified. The signifier may be natural (clouds indicate that it is going to rain) or artificial. All cultures are ma...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Coolabah |
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| Online Access: | http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15707/18821 |