Oral Tradition as History

Vansina, J. (1985). Oral Tradition as History. University of Wisconsin Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1985

Link

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/O/Oral-Tradition-as-History2

Cited from

psychology

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Primes

• Maintenance Rehearsal
  • In social and institutional memory, oral traditions, commemorations, and recitations survive only as long as the community keeps rehearsing them.

    This sourceTreats oral tradition as a process sustained in communal memory through performance and transmission, surviving only as long as successive generations keep reciting and re-performing it.

Domain-specific

• Origin Myth
  • … setting, while also warning that one narrative can change category across communities or over time. Vansina's source-critical treatment of oral tradition further requires analysts to separate what a tradition reveals about its transmission and present uses from what it can independently establish about past events.

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