oral tradition in English

noun

orally transmitted traditions and laws

Use "oral tradition" in a sentence

1. Clans In our culture the oral tradition is important

2. Oral tradition plays a large role in Sicilian folklore.

3. Cinderella stories originated through the oral tradition of storytelling

4. He also used additional sources: books, maps or oral tradition.

5. In the old oral tradition, the storyteller was an important link with the past.

6. In the oral tradition, the Caesura is a break in the line where the speaker pauses

7. In fact, they obey the conventions of the oral tradition, reducing complex phenomena to single comprehensible causes.

8. The oral tradition has been part of the culture of the various indigenous groups in Sarawak for generations.

9. The Oral Tradition and Literary Writings conceptualing the Indian Ocean would also be added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

10. Shona has a rich oral tradition, which was incorporated into the first Shona novel, Feso by Solomon Mutswairo, published in 1956.

11. The Pali Canon, having previously been preserved as an oral tradition, was first committed to writing in Sri Lanka around 30 BCE.

12. 27 In many ways information in such systems resembles oral tradition more closely than the object-based holdings of archives and libraries.

13. Examples from Classical Literature It may arise from reliable oral tradition, and in this case be as worthy of Credence as the Markan source

14. Adherence to the oral tradition, with its rules for interpreting the law, was seen by the Pharisee as the way to the fulfilment of the Torah. . . .

15. (2 Peter 3:15) Additionally, The Anchor Bible Dictionary states: “Dependence on oral tradition could easily account for the memorable sayings of Jesus being recorded in identical form.”

16. The Haudenosaunee themselves have a long-standing oral tradition that describes the origins of their famed Confederacy, as well as the constitution the five nations created upon forming this league.

17. From the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the oral tradition of Inuits and urban legends of the present day, mythical Creatures are an integral part of any folklore or mythological account

18. The Torah is part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible, and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud.

19. Birchbark Sewn Makak Containers Birchbark Utensils The durability and preservative properties of Birchbark endowed this material with legendary properties of protection, and earned the bark a place in oral tradition at the center of many Native American myths from the Great Lakes and northern New England regions.

20. First, Wilson's use of language Concretizes on stage the richness of what Henry Louis Gates, Jr., calls African American "vernacular, or oral tradition." In his article "The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition," Gates suggests that to reassess African American literary and cultural achievement is to recognize "the formal relationships that obtain among texts

21. Nara, for instance, the protagonist in VY Mudimbe’s novel L’Écart [6] (Paris 1979), who, consequent to his studies in Europe, wants to write the “real history of Africa” and refute the shameful lies of the Toubabs – including that of a “virgin Africa” without archives, which will find recognition from western sciences and offer them, as he says, a kind of free trade terrain – Nara notes that the field of knowledge which the norms of western science have accustomed him to, have granted him the right to demand something other than nice ornaments about civilizations that are allegedly grounded in oral tradition.