RE: oral tradition

andrew (amandell@jpusa.chi.il.us)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:36:04 -0500

Hi Glenn
>You make oral tradition sound like a bad memory assignment from 3rd grade.
>Have you ever seen a story teller from the South? They tell oral tales.
>But they don't just sit there like lumps on a log verbalizing the tale.
>They move, they gesture, they act out, they change their voice. Oral
>tradition always involves the visual.
>glenn
It still seems hard to imagine genealogies and such being kept so long.
Can't picture a visual aid for info like that.
Andrew