List of oral repositories
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List of oral repositories
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Oral repositories are people that have been trusted with mentally recording information constituting oral tradition within a society, serving a crucial role in oral cultures and illiterate societies as repositories of knowledge, values, and morals. They have been termed "walking libraries", leading to the saying "whenever an old man dies, it is as though a library were burning down". Roles vary, and can be titular, formal or informal, some professional specialists such as the Caucasian ashik, or
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2024-08-17T20:04:49Z
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2024-09-14T17:31:17Z
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