Oral tradition
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oral-tradition-221-3959548
title:
Oral tradition
text:
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, 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 repositories, sometimes termed "walking libraries", who are usually also performers. Oral tradition is a medium of communication for a society to transmit oral histo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Culture preserved through speech or song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition
date created:
2002-09-07T02:47:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T19:57:57Z
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