"Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another."
The study of traditional storytelling and oral literature.
Oral traditions: The culture, customs and traditions of a certain group of people that are passed down through spoken word.
Storytelling: The art of narrating a story that captures the imagination of the audience and delivers a message, moral or entertainment.
Myths and legend: Folklore stories that involve supernatural beings, gods or heroes and are often used to explain natural phenomena or cultural origins.
Fables: Short stories that use animals or inanimate objects as characters to teach moral lessons.
Folk tales: Traditional stories that are passed down through generations and often involve ordinary people, animals, or supernatural beings.
Epic poetry: Long narrative poems that tell the adventures of a hero or a group of heroes, often in a grand or elevated style.
Ballads: Narrative songs that tell a story, often about love, loss, or tragedy.
Riddles and proverbs: Short, pithy sayings or questions that often contain hidden meanings, used to convey wisdom or playfulness.
Performance and improvisation: The dynamic and interactive nature of oral storytelling, where the storyteller is often expected to improvise and adapt to the audience.
Cultural context: The social, historical, and cultural background that shapes the creation and reception of oral traditions and storytelling.
"The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry."
"It is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law, and other knowledge across generations without a writing system, or in parallel to a writing system."
"Religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Jainism, for example, have used an oral tradition, in parallel to a writing system, to transmit their canonical scriptures, rituals, hymns, and mythologies."
"Oral tradition is information, memories, and knowledge held in common by a group of people, over many generations; it is not the same as testimony or oral history."
"In a general sense, 'oral tradition' refers to the recall and transmission of a specific, preserved textual and cultural knowledge through vocal utterance."
"The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of oral history, which is the recording of personal memories and histories of those who experienced historical eras or events."
"Oral tradition is also distinct from the study of orality, defined as thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population."
"A folklore is a type of oral tradition, but knowledge other than folklore has been orally transmitted and thus preserved in human history."
"Knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material" are transmitted through oral tradition.
"It is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law, and other knowledge across generations without a writing system, or in parallel to a writing system."
"Religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Jainism, for example, have used an oral tradition, in parallel to a writing system, to transmit their canonical scriptures, rituals, hymns, and mythologies."
"Oral tradition is information, memories, and knowledge held in common by a group of people, over many generations; it is not the same as testimony or oral history."
"As an academic discipline, it refers both to a set of objects of study and the method by which they are studied."
"The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of oral history, which is the recording of personal memories and histories of those who experienced historical eras or events."
"Oral tradition is also distinct from the study of orality, defined as thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population."
"Knowledge other than folklore has been orally transmitted and thus preserved in human history."
"The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry."
"Religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Jainism (...) have used an oral tradition, in parallel to a writing system, to transmit their canonical scriptures, rituals, hymns, and mythologies."
"Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another."