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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.
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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.
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...
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
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A video in which I characterize the core elements of oral culture in primitive societies. I also explain why modern parenting is a total failure and why should we return to the old model of family life. Music: Fenriz (Neptune Towers) Contact: jasneoczy@gmail.com www.forgottenroots.org
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...
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http://www.ScottMSullivan.com - Michael Licona, Craig Blomberg, and Craig Evans discuss the power of oral tradition in ancient cultures and its important for the study of the historical Jesus and the Gospels. This clip is from the Christ 101 course. Click the link for more information.
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Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://skyble.space/sabk/35/en/B00GMIUD7O/trial The last three decades have seen an explosion of biblical scholarship on the presence and consequences of the oral expression of tradition among Jesus followers, especially in the earliest decades of the Common Era. There is a wealth of scholarship focused on orality. This scholarship is, however, abstract and technical almost by definition, and to date no introductory discussion exists that can introduce a new generation of biblical students to the issues being discussed at higher levels of scholarship. Rafael Rodriguez address this gap. Rodriguez adopts a fourfold structure to cover the topic, beginning with basic essentials for further discussion of oral-tradition research and definitions of key terms (the...
北海道は白老町にあるポロトコタン、アイヌ民族博物館でのオルシペアヌロー(口承文芸)の様子。これは、パナンぺとペナンぺという昔話の一節をアイヌ語で謡ってくれたもの。 アイヌは文字を持たなかったため、教訓なども口承で伝えられた。最も有名なものはユーカラだが、三日三晩続く物語らしい。 このアイヌ語、もちろん方言があり、辞書になっているのは二風谷方言らしい。従って、他の地域のアイヌ語は発掘が難しいとのこと。 ↓関連した写真・旅行記はこちら http://tabibitomk.wixsite.com/traveller/ainu
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B00BGIYUZQ/info The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on "what?" but on "how do I get there?" In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network. In both media it's pathwaysnot thingsthat matter. To illustrate these ideas, this volume is designed as a "morphing book," a collection of link...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://skyble.space/mabk/30/en/B00E7136EA/book Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of heterogeneity: the persistent interaction of cultural difference that cannot be resolved in synthesis. He reexamines encounters between Spanish and indigenous Andean cultural systems in the New World from the Conquest into the 1980s. Through innovative readings of narratives of conquest and liberation, homogenizing ni...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://skyble.space/mabk/30/en/B015WHGJDW/book The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician and the hero-athlete narrative-promoted opposed political visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid rule. Combining an...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://skyble.space/mabk/30/en/B001FOPXE8/book Einhorn, a rhetorical scholar, explores the rich history of the Native American oral tradition, focusing on stories, orations, prayers, and songs. Because American Indians existed without written language for many generations, their culture was strongly dependent on an oral tradition for continuity and preservation. Not surprisingly, they spent many hours perfecting the art of oral communication and learning methods for committing their messages to memory. Einhorn thoroughly examines the important aspects of this unique oral tradition from a rhetorical perspective, covering individual speakers, nations, and time periods.in the first half of the book, the author examines how the Native American oral tradition h...
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.
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...
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...
TRACES OF ORAL TRADITIONS IN ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS OF THE 14TH AND 15TH CENTURY / Tracce della tradizione orale in manoscritti italiani del XIV, XV sec. THE COMPLETE ALBUM ANDREA STEFANI [fl. c. 1399 - XV Century] Ballade: I' senti matutino - 0:00 source: Archivio di Stato-Mancini (Lucca) CORSICAN TRADITIONAL [XV Century] Culomba amata - 2:50 SICILIAN attributed to FREDERICK II [1194 - 1250] Ballade: Dolce lo mio drudo - 6:00 source: Codex Reina 6771 (Paris) CORSICAN TRADITIONAL [XV Century] Tribbiera - 11:32 SICILIAN ANONYMOUS [XV Century] Ballade: Donna fallante - 13:17 source: Codex Reina 6771 (Paris) UMBRIAN TRADITIONAL [XV Century] Alla metitora - 19:53 ANTONELLO DA CASERTA Ballade: Con dogliosi martiri - 23:41 source: Codex Reina 6771 (Paris) SICILIAN ANONYMOUS [XV Century] B...
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.
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.
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...
A griot (gree-oh) is the keeper of the West African oral tradition and the tribe’s genealogy through poetic songs. Bob is invited to Gambia by his long-time friend and teacher, Papa Susso, to learn more about this musical art and see how the kora, the 21-string harp-lute is made. Bob travels up the Niger River with Papa’s son, Karamo, also a griot, in search of the spirit of the African-American Beat poet, Ted Joans, who lived a buoyant life in Timbuktu in the 70s and was Bob’s mentor. Along the way, Bob discovers the roots of hip-hop, rap, the blues — all the great American musical traditions that originated in Africa. The episode concludes with a kora-guitar jam session between Karamo and Ali Farka Toure’s son, Vieux.
This talk covers general concepts related to the Native American oral literary tradition, focusing especially on origin stories.
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