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Literacy in a Hunting-Gathering Society: The Case of the Diyari

Vernacular literacy "took hold" among the Diyari, a nonliterate hunting-gathering Aboriginal society in central Australia, as a result of their experience with German Lutheran missionaries in the nineteenth century. Factors affecting this transfer, which took place in spite of culture conflict, include missionary ideology and everyday literacy practices as well as new Diyari communicative needs. The process is compared with the beginning of vernacular literacy among the Aleut as a result of their experience with Russian Orthodox missionaries in the nineteenth century.