February 12, 1999
Whatever Happened to Bibliographies?
I take Claude Levi-Strauss's The Savage Mind off the shelf, turn to the back, and find a 12-page compilation of the books and journal articles that the author used to produce this seminal study of differences among cultures. Walter Ong's extraordinary Orality and Literacy, which compares oral and literate cultures, concludes with 15 pages of citations.
Yet other works on my bookshelf are not as helpful. For
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