They write names and short slogans, which is the one thing I would expect nonliterate people not to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog: Review: Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art] Reference

One answer may be an increasingly "nonliterate culture," as historian Diane Ravitch of New York University puts it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merchants Of Mediocrity] Reference

The successfully Americanized mother stereotype posed as sure a threat to her children as did the nonliterate immigrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stereotypes in the United States.] Reference

People from poor, oppressed, traditionally nonliterate Asian communities perform similarly to people from poor, oppressed, traditionally nonliterate African communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » LA Teacher’s Union To Get Its Shot] Reference

On the other hand, the landdag and its symbols served in the place of writs and contracts, so that the actions of the nonliterate elders could be ordered and coordinated by the governor and the Council.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

What distinguishes scientific thinking from that of traditional and, as it often turns out, nonliterate cultures is the tendency of the latter to seek the shortest possible means to achieve total understanding of their world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

This brings up a highly relevant, if obvious point regarding such paintings' effect on a nonliterate audience: If they couldn't read the text in the painting and most of them could not, they couldn't read the book the text came from, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes On The Prehistory of Speech Balloons] Reference

Literacy and Christianity, for example, have given even nonliterate, non-churchgoing women new vocabulary and symbols for conceptualizing, and sometimes contesting, local practices and meanings related to traditional feminine qualities, duties, and roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

But their insatiable demands for exotic raw materials—for gold, copper, iron ore, even such prosaic items as timber or textiles—brought them into contact with dozens of prehistoric, nonliterate societies that lived on the margins of, or outside, their boundaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Webs of Relations] Reference

Initially, historians tended to use oral history as a way to fill in facts and evidence, particularly in nonliterate societies, where there was no written record, or, within literate societies, in groups that had tended to be excluded from the written record; they tended to use oral history as.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference

For the most part, these indigenous maps are not artifactual ones, at least not in the sense that Western-trained researchers are likely to recognize (e.g., lines and symbols on paper); in this largely nonliterate agrarian society, such forms of cartography have not generally been necessary, even to the ruling elites of precolonial polities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Since clear evidence for belief systems is rarely visible in the archaeological record, especially when dealing with nonliterate societies such as Great Zimbabwe, it must be inferred from beliefs of descendant cultures, historical accounts, and telltale symbolism encoded in architecture, space use, and a site's relationships to the surrounding landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riddle of Great Zimbabwe] Reference

On the day she finally decided to tell me about her own tattoos, Rosalina Malungana, the Swiss Mission-educated woman who, as we saw in chapter 3, reminisced so romantically about her common-law marriage to a Portuguese truck driver, acknowledged one source of conflict in their relationship that stemmed from Rosalina's desire to befriend her new non-Christian and nonliterate neighbors in Chibuto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Up until the second half of the 20th century, many of the societies there remained nonliterate and supported themselves through trade, smuggling, and Iron-Age practices like slash-and-burn agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

Using French literary and poststructural theory to describe nonliterate tribal practices seems profoundly unanthropological and yet such practices proliferate in academic journalis at an astounding rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savage Minds] Reference

Synonyms benighted, dark, illiterate, nonliterate, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAKE Magazine] Reference