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Socrates on Orality vs. Literacy
And he famously preferred orality...
From Phaedrus: "this discovery of yours [script] will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you will give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth: they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing: they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman_Parry The Wikipeda article is little more than a stub but Bernard Knox's introduction to Fagles' translation of the Iliad contains a facinating discussion of Parry and his work. The bards in India have enriched our understandings of oral traditions.
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Yes. There are several different versions. Some are deemed more authentic than others based primarily on how early they were recorded, wioth thosewirtten later being less likely to be accurate (this is a gross oversimplfication, but you get the idea). All Maori 'iwi' can trace their lineage back to one of the original canoe landings, which tracing is through the oral histories. For many years european historians beleived these histories were fanciful tales, but with furhter investigation they have come to conclude that they can be related to actual events and in fact may be quite accurate, basing this on textual analysis as well as traditonal archeology and even DNA samples.
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Do you have a title for these Maori works?
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