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Except that in an orally transmitted culture, stories are _also_ told to communicate actual, factual history. So the issue is that we no longer communicate our
by snapdangle 8y ago
Except that in an orally transmitted culture, stories are _also_ told to communicate actual, factual history.
So the issue is that we no longer communicate our history through stories told out loud and therefore decided not to be able to conceive of any culture actually doing the same.
- watwut 8y agoAnd those stories transform with needs of each generation. We don't trust what past people wrote about their own history either and not just because of fantastic elements.
- snapdangle 8y agoYou cannot judge another society's approach to history based on how we treat it. The presumption of rapidly shifting history in orally transmitted culture is being debunked by this and other works. The shame is that if people would just for a second stop coming from places of assumption like the one you have written, we wouldn't need to wait for research to prove it is worth listening to before trying to learn from it.