January 10, 2008 01:12PM
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I would think that before the invention of writing that
it was far more important to maintain accuracy in the oral
traditions. People can memorize vast amounts of information.
This could be amended over the years to incorporate new know-
ledge.
The fact is in regards to historical data, we do have a check. There are numerous anthropological data about preliterate societies and results indicate that historical data more than two centuries old in such societies is, bluntly, extremely unreliable. I could for example point to the Nuer of the Sudan who believed that the tree under which man was created was still alieve and could be pointed too.
Maintaing accuracy in Oral traditions in oral traditions is frankly very difficult.
The assumption that there would be signifigantly greater effort to maintain historical accuracy in oral traditions without writing is basically impossible to check without writing or some other check. In fact it appears that oral traditions are liable to manipulation in order to make sense to each succeding generation. If an oral tradition no longer made sense it would be modified, regardless of historical accuracy, so says abundant evidence regarding the use of oral tradition in many pre-literate societies.
My main problem was your comment regarding writing serving has a barrier to knowledge of the past. Well writing enables us to have some sort of knowledge of a "reaL" deep past nothing like what a continously modified oral tradition would give.
Pierre
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