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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, beliefs, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry. The information is mentally recorded by oral…

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Oral tradition

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related to Bibliography · 121
Oral tradition → Alan, Albania, Albanian, Albanian Epic, Albanian Epic Poetry, Albanian Folktales, Albanian Studies, America, An International Sourcebook, An Introduction, Ancients, Andrew, Anna, Annotated Bibliography, Arbnora, Archived, Bannister, Bloomington, Bloomsbury, Blum
related to Africa · 21
Oral tradition → Abrahamic, African, All, Bamums, Bible, Cameroon, Europe, For, Frequently, Furthermore, If, In Africa, In Burundi, It, Jan Vansina, Most African, Oral, Rwanda, The, These African
related to Historiography · 21
Oral tradition → Africa, African, As, Barbara Cooper, Historians, In, Indigenous, Individualised, Jan Bender Shetler, Jan Vansina, Karin Barber, Maori's, Native Americans, Occasionally, Oral, Polynesians, Researchers, Some, The, This
related to External links · 20
Oral tradition → African Oral History, Center, Collection, GalaxyDédalo Project, Intangible Cultural Heritage, LouisBack, Management, October, Open Software Platform, Oral HistoryArchive, Oral Literature Online Archived, Oral TraditionFolk Tales, Oral TraditionThe Milman Parry, St, Studies, Texas Tech University, Turkish Oral Narrative, Washington University, Wayback MachineOral Tradition JournalThe, World Oral Literature ProjectPost-Gutenberg
related to John Miles Foley · 20
Oral tradition → Ancient Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Center, Foley, He, In, John Miles Foley, Linguistics, Missouri, Ong's, Oral Theory, Oral-Formulaic Composition, Oral-Formulaic Theory, Perhaps, Research, Serbo-Croatian, South Slavic, Studies, The, University
related to Acceptance and further elaboration · 18
Oral tradition → At, Battle, Beasts, Brian Stock Franz Bäuml, Cliffs, Death, Eric Havelock, Examples, Foley's, Higher, However, Perhaps, Some, Sophisticated, The, The Indo-European Return Song, Very, While
related to Criticism · 18
Oral tradition → Ancient Greek, Beach, Chinese, Crowne's, Dane, For, Germanic, Hero, Homer, Icelandic, Middle English, Old English, Parry's, Similarly, Some, The, There, While
related to Walter Ong · 18
Oral tradition → Consciousness, Contest, Cornell, Fighting, He, In, Jesuit Walter Ong, Life, Literacy, Marshall McLuhan, McLuhan's, Methuen, Ong's, Orality, Parry-Lord, Sexuality, These, This
related to Transmission · 13
Oral tradition → Buddhist, Cameroon, Chandas, For, Graffis, Grasslanders, Greek, Hindu, In, Latin, Oral, Such, The
see also · 11
Oral tradition → Category, FolkloreAmerican Indian, Gawęda, Geomythology, Gold Duck, GriotHadithIntangible, MediaWorld Oral Literature Project, Oral, Polish, TorahOral Tradition JournalOral-formulaic, Złota Kaczka

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Oral traditionis amedium of communication for a society to transmit oral history0.90text
Oral traditionis awest African griot0.90text
Buddhisminstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
Hinduisminstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
Catholicisminstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
and Jainism have used oral traditioninstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
in parallel to writinginstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
to transmit their canonical scripturesinstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
ritualsinstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
hymnsinstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
mythologiesinstance ofThey often remain in use in the modern era throughout for cultural preservation.Religions0.80text
Ancient Egyptinstance ofThis distinguished them from civilizations0.80text

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