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LIENHARD, Martin. Human thought and its materializations. LiminaR [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.2, pp.21-36.  Epub 27-Set-2021. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v19i2.839.

This article endeavors to contemplate from afar traditions that study orality and of societies that do not have a writing system, thus privileging the production-reception of verbal discourses. The starting premise is that such societies have, if we refer to their communicative technology, not one but two systems of verbal communication: the oral (or vocal) and the gestural. The gestural system, like the modern gestural language for the deaf, translates, like writing, a verbal discourse; it is therefore, like subtitles in the cinema, a kind of ephemeral writing. The use of one or the other of the two systems depends on the context: Gestural writing is used in public and vocal orality in the intimate sphere. In terms of the durability of the two systems, the hermeneutic-exegetical gaze is placed in the κίνημα dimension (film, movement), traversing and drawing on oral poems, myths, and mythographies, primordial paintings, and pre-Columbian canvases, in addition to dialogue with specialists in the field.

Palavras-chave : orality; writing; cultures; myths; modernity.