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Oral tradition and oral lore is cultural material and tradition transmitted orally from one generation to another. The messages or testimony are verbally transmitted in speech or song and may take the form, for example, of folktales, sayings, ballads, songs, or chants. In this way, it is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledges across generations without a writing system.
A narrower definition of oral tradition is sometimes appropriate. Sociologists might also emphasize a requirement that the material is held in common by a group of people, over several generations, and might distinguish oral tradition from testimony or oral history. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore (a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists). As an academic discipline, it refers both to a set of objects of study and a method by which they are studied—the method may be called variously "oral traditional theory", "the theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition" and the "Parry-Lord theory" (after two of its founders; see below) The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of oral history, which is the recording of personal memories and histories of those who experienced historical eras or events. It is also distinct from the study of orality, which can be defined as thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.
Join us at: http://www.inspiringphilosophy.org To help support this ministry click here: http://www.patreon.com/inspiringphilosophy This is a defense of the oral tradition which handed us down the New Testament. This video points out that from scholarship, there is no reason to doubt the reliability of the New Testament. Sources: Dethroning Jesus - Darrell Bock & Dan Wallace Fabricating Jesus - Craig Evans Trusting the New Testament - JP Holding The Text of the New Testament - Bruce Metzger & Bart Ehrman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZEYfLxtsM The Book of Memory - Mary Carruthers Orality and Literacy in Hellenistic Greece - Tony Lentz Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and the Hidden Transcript in Q - Richard Horsley Wax Tablets of the Mind - Jocelyn Small http://ext.sa...
Wahsoñdiyoh - Nancy Powless, Eel Clan Shohwehnona'- Carson Campbell, Wolf Clan This video, filmed on location at the Onondaga Nation School in Onondaga Nation, focuses on the purpose of oral tradition in Haudenosaunee culture including a description of how wampum belts are a means to record history and treaties. This video accompanies New York State Education Department ELA curriculum module 4M1A.
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In this talk, Alex MacDonald will speak about how smartphones and social media are both innovating and honoring the tap dance tradition. Alex MacDonald is a NYC-based professional tap dancer, teaching artist, and choreographer. He is a 2012 recipient of the Fulbright Student Scholarship to Ireland, where he received his M.A. in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
This documentary shows that it is possible to transmit orally a poem as extense as the Illiad (14,000 verses). As evidence, a contemporary Irish bard is presented. The study of Homer is one of the oldest topics in scholarship, dating back to antiquity. The aims and achievements of Homeric studies have changed over the course of the millennia. In the last few centuries, they have revolved around the process by which the Homeric poems came into existence and were transmitted over time to us, first orally and later in writing. Some of the main trends in modern Homeric scholarship have been, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Analysis and Unitarianism (see Homeric Question), schools of thought which emphasized on the one hand the inconsistencies in, and on the other the artistic unity...
Smoke Signals movie clips: http://j.mp/1Jd64e9 BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/sa6HXq Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Thomas (Evan Adams) secures a ride for Victor (Adam Beach) and himself after he regales a couple of women with his storytelling abilities. FILM DESCRIPTION: This dramatic feature was written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans. Native American writer Sherman Alexie scripted this adaptation of his 1993 short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Director Chris Eyre's previous short Someone Kept Saying Powwow is incorporated into the 88-minute feature. Developed at the Sundance Lab in 1995, the film was a winner of both the Audience Award and the Filmmakers' Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Fest...
Students in the "Hip-Hop: Evolution and Impact" course at the College of Charleston completed video projects that aim to engage viewers in a conversation about a specific topic involving Hip-Hop music and culture.
http://simpletoremember.com/ A rational approach to the Divine origin of the Oral Tradition. Jews believe that God gave over an Oral Tradition along with the Torah. This video discusses proofs for how we know the Oral Tradition is true and intact today.
For more resources visit: http://www.reasonablefaith.org The week following Easter in 2015, Dr Craig flew to Dallas, Texas, where he spoke in a downtown bar for the Bible and Beer Consortium. This ministry holds outreach events in this large, dark Dallas bar on a regular basis. Apparently, the bar is only too happy to do so because of the large crowds the events attract. There were several hundred who came out to hear Dr Craig give a talk on the resurrection of Jesus as an event of history. It was a delightful time defending the heart of the Gospel, and Dr Craig really liked the way the BBC is taking the Gospel to where the people really are. We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other ch...
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This talk covers general concepts related to the Native American oral literary tradition, focusing especially on origin stories.
Opening discussion, to continue all semester, about the differences between oral literature and "literature" literature
Alan Shlemon of Stand to Reason explains how Islamic teachings were transmitted and compiled, especially regarding the words of Mohammed. For more information, visit str.org. Connect with us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/STRtweets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/standtoreason93/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standtoreason/
John 18:1 gives a noun used in no other gospel: When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. Some translations call it a brook, not a valley: When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron. This kind of specific detail adds credibility to the fourth gospel, right? It seems John wrote down a detail kept alive by oral tradition. I think the four gospels pass along very little from oral tradition. The unknown writers were in cities far from Jerusalem (destroyed in 70 A.D.), far from any who witnessed what happened 50 years earlier. The gospel writers had text to work from, not oral tradition. They worked creatively with scripture--the Old Testament--when writing about Jesus. I think John put Kid...
Dr. John Reynolds presented this seminar on the origins of Tibetan Bon Dzogchen according to the Zhang-zhung Nyän-gyüd at Gyalshen Institute on December 7, 2014. Unlike the other traditions of Dzogchen found within Bön, the Zhang-zhung Nyän-gyüd represents a continuous and unbroken transmission from earliest times of the precepts of Dzogchen coming down to our own time. These teachings and practices were transmitted by the enlightened master Tapihritsa to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo at the Darok Lake in the 8th century in Zhang-zhung, or Northwestern Tibet, at that time an independent kingdom with its own language and religious culture. But the ultimate source of the Dzogchen teachings are said to be far more ancient, extending back to the Primordial Buddha, Kuntu Zangpo himself...
Dr. John Reynolds presented this seminar on the origins of Tibetan Bon Dzogchen according to the Zhang-zhung Nyän-gyüd at Gyalshen Institute on December 7, 2014. Unlike the other traditions of Dzogchen found within Bön, the Zhang-zhung Nyän-gyüd represents a continuous and unbroken transmission from earliest times of the precepts of Dzogchen coming down to our own time. These teachings and practices were transmitted by the enlightened master Tapihritsa to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo at the Darok Lake in the 8th century in Zhang-zhung, or Northwestern Tibet, at that time an independent kingdom with its own language and religious culture. But the ultimate source of the Dzogchen teachings are said to be far more ancient, extending back to the Primordial Buddha, Kuntu Zangpo himself....
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Interview with Imam Baksh, winner of the 2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. He discusses his winning novel, his influences and his methods with Petamber Persaud of NCN TV's Oral Tradition. Children of the Spider will be released at the end of 2015. Subscribe to the Imam Baksh channel to get more updates about his work.
The oral tradition of the Vedas (Śrauta) consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts (samhitas) as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer (early Iron Age). UNESCO proclaimed the tradition of Vedic chant a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 7, 2003. Wayne Howard noted in the preface of his book, Veda Recitation in Varanasi, "The four Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva) are not 'books' in the usual sense, though within the past hundred years each veda has appeared in several printed editions. They are comprised rather of tonally accented verses and hypnotic, abstruse melodies who...
Being a Linux kernel maintainer involves knowing about a large number of implicit or unwritten rules. This talk is an attempt to make such rules more explicit and through this, help both new maintainers and contributors. By having a better knowledge of these rules, they will have a better understanding on how and when to send their contributions. First we will start with a reminder of what the role of a maintainer is and how to get involved. Then we will see the process through which a patch gets accepted. And finally the interaction with the other maintainers both horizontally (the ones from parallel subsystem or the co-maintainers) and vertically (from the upper or bottom subsystems) will be discussed. The talk will be illustrated by real examples and by the tools used to ease this w...
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Canadian Geographic proudly present guest lecturers David Woodman, Russell Potter, Louie Kamookak, Ryan Harris and Karen Ryan to discuss the role of Inuit oral testimony in the search for the doomed Franklin expedition.
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