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Oral Genealogy is Ephemeral

Dec . 17 . 2007
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Posted by Time Barrow

"Narrators narrate what audiences call for or will tolerate. When the market for a printed book declines, the presses stop rolling but thousands of copies may remain. When the market for an oral genealogy disappears, so does the genealogy itself, utterly." (66). This is certainly logical in consi...

What’s on the Telly? – Navigation and Control of our Content

Nov . 27 . 2007
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Posted by Time Barrow

In a primarily oral culture, there is no way to record and recall a speech or oral performance. As Ong, Heim, and others have detailed, this is the reasoning for the structured, rhythmic nature of the oral epic. It was just not possible for the human mind to organize and remember a detailed, complex...