nonliterate

Such a practice would have been especially useful in nonliterate societies where knowledge was transmitted orally.

In nonliterate societies, minstrels occupy a place of power, both as guards of the people’s history and remodelers of the myths they tell.

“The big issue with a project of this sort is that these are nonliterate people,” he said.

He was less interested in prehistory and in simpler, nonliterate societies.

More quickly: The child who learns to read about his nonliterate ancestors necessarily separates himself from their way of life.