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To: AnAmericanMother
Sorry, you're just plain wrong here.

Tradition is not Oral tradition. I can't really tell anything from your link except for the title, "Customs and Ceremonies...Living Traditions." Oral tradition is not tradition or ceremony.

From Wikipedia:
Oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next in a civilization without a writing system. An example that combined aspects of oral literature and oral history, before eventually being set down in writing, is the Homeric epic poetry of the Iliad and the Odyssey. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore (a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists). As an academic discipline, it refers both to a method and the objects studied by the method. (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.)

458 posted on 03/04/2007 7:30:38 PM PST by the808bass
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To: the808bass
Oral tradition is exactly what I'm talking about. That's what Sharpe, Niles, and Chase collected. Their work is well known to anybody in the field, it is not oral history.

Sorry, I took my undergraduate degree in history, and I'm VERY familiar with oral tradition work in Britain and the U.S. You were just plain caught out here, and Wikipedia (Wikipedia!) will not save you.

464 posted on 03/04/2007 7:35:12 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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