<The question about oral traditions as a record.>
I agree with Glen. Oral history can be a record. I worked with several tribes and pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona on RIM projects. The one thing they agreed on was that the oral histories could not be written down accurately, because 1) tone of voice and facial expressions were part of the telling and 2) humans tend to use their own words to describe an emotion or action rather than tell verbatim (kind of like the old game of "gossip") and so eventually change the meaning of the history. That is why the histories were told my specially trained members of the tribe.
Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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Subject: [RM] Proof that oral traditions can be a record.
The question about oral traditions as a record.
Funny how there was a serendipitous moment last week. I had posted about different types of media and what the future would be and post popped up about Oral traditions as a record, I am reading about Neanderthals and the capacity to interact without speech but through a type of telepathy, and I saw a video about the Inuit and earthquakes.
So how did this all tie together?
1-Inuits have a story about the Thunderbird and the Thunderbird comes out every so often and shakes things up.
2-The geographical record in the area also shows that about every three hundred years a geological event happens that can be tied to the Inuit story.
3-Coincidently about the time of the geographic record being created, it was documented in Japan that a Tsunami hit.
Three separate sources all telling the same story. Yes the Inuit's did not know how to convey an earthquake but they were able to describe actions of the earth.
So the answer to the question can Oral traditions be a record, I would say Yes.
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