Our culture values written speech a lot and this fact relates to the notion of 'study'. Study as an extended linear analysis didn't exist in oral people (tribes where written code isn't used or isn't common), since the latter didn't have written documents and they depended on collective learning from mouth to mouth a lot. But what exactly is going on with oral culture? What is oral literacy? What's the relationship of oral speech with the written word? And how is it all connected to Mushishi?
