"A method based on the document is prejudiced; fated to neglect the majority of people, for they were nonliterate and, within the boundaries of literacy, to neglect the majority of people, for they did not write. Even today, in societies of almost universal literacy, it is a rare soul who bequeaths to future historians a written account of his thought....How can you study a society if you attend only to the expressions of a small and deviant class within the whole?"

-- Henry Glassie, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia

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