Voorbeelden van oral tradition

• 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.