RE: oral tradition
andrew (amandell@jpusa.chi.il.us)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:21:49 -0500
At 09:58 PM 7/22/99 +0000, mortongr@flash.net wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>At 09:36 AM 7/23/99 -0500, andrew wrote:
>> Hi Glenn
>>>You make oral tradition sound like a bad memory assignment from 3rd grade.
>>>Have you ever seen a story teller from the South? They tell oral tales.
>>>But they don't just sit there like lumps on a log verbalizing the tale.
>>>They move, they gesture, they act out, they change their voice. Oral
>>>tradition always involves the visual.
>>>glenn
>>It still seems hard to imagine genealogies and such being kept so long.
>>Can't picture a visual aid for info like that.
>
>Lets see if we can get you into the realm of verification/falsification.
>How long do you think such information can be kept accurately?
Well I live in a commune which is fairly pre-historic. Info usually
distorts after 27 minutes. However they are gentiles so ..... o.k. I don't
really know. Since this is a set-up anyway go ahead and tell me what you
know as it is usually a fair bit more than me:)
Andrew