Oral Tradition
A Study in Historical Methodology
Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are unwritten sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing, oral tradition forms the main available source for a reconstruction of the past. Do the special characteristics of oral traditions u unwritten information dependent on the memory of successive generations u invalidate them as sources of historical data? If not, are there means for testing their r…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-50134-7
- EAN: 9781351501347
- Produktnummer: 24136839
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 226 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 13'739 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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