Title: Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology
Abstract: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 ...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.Read More
Publication Year: 1967
Publication Date: 1967-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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