0 a system for preserving a group's beliefs, customs, and history, in which parents tell their children about them, and the children tell their children, and so on
The local discourses about oral tradition differ sharply from western academic discourses.
An oral tradition can and will adapt from one generation to the next, repeating its content in a form more readily accessible to the hearers.
And, most important for our purposes, he minimized episodes remembered in the oral tradition that might have been unpleasant for the royal family.
Consider any theological claim made from within a religious tradition - in scripture, oral tradition, commentary, or what have you.
One is oral tradition, the other is his stelae.
The place is just as interwoven in the oral tradition, subjective experiences and perceptions of the local communities.
In pre-literate societies oral tradition was a major form of handing down history.
After all, a standardised version of the tale never existed, for it was based on oral tradition and pictorial histories that changed over time.
