What is Oral tradition?
An '''oral tradition''' or '''oral culture''' is a way of transmitting [[history]], [[literature]] or [[law]] from one [[generation]] to the next, without a [[writing system]], by [[voice]]. People tell stories. Often the stories are made into [[Poetry|poem]]<nowiki/>s and [[song]]<nowiki/>s to make remembering easy. For example, the [[Homer]]ic [[poetry]] of the ''[[Iliad]]'' and the ''[[Odyssey]]'' combined oral [[literature]] and oral [[history]]. Eventually they were written down. == Related pages == *[[Legend]] *[[Narrative poetry]] *[[Oral law]] *[[Word of mouth]] == Other websites == * [http://www.oraltradition.org The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition] * [http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/ The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024125752/http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/ |date=2007-10-24 }} * [http://journal.oraltradition.org/ Oral Tradition Journal] {{stub}} [[Category:Oral tradition| ]]