List of oral repositories

Examples of oral repositories
Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Seán Ó hEinirí, seanchaí from Mayo, Ireland
Mandinka jeli Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs on the kora from the oral tradition of the Gambia
A manaschi performing the Epic of Manas in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan

Oral repositories are people who have been trusted with mentally recording information constituting oral tradition within a society. They serve an important role in oral cultures and illiterate societies as repositories of their culture's traditional knowledge, values, and morals.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Ikuenobe, Polycarp (2018). "Oral Tradition, Epistemic Dependence, and Knowledge in African Cultures" (PDF). Synthesis Philisophica. 33 (1): 23–40. doi:10.21464/SP33102. S2CID 195540414.
  2. ^ Amadi, Adolphe O. (January 1981). "The emergence of a library tradition in pre- and post-colonial Africa". International Library Review. 13 (1): 65–72. doi:10.1016/0020-7837(81)90029-7.
  3. ^ Thieme, John (2016), Head, Dominic (ed.), "After Empire: Postcolonial Short Fiction and the Oral Tradition", The Cambridge History of the English Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 377–394, ISBN 978-1-107-16742-1, retrieved 2024-08-19
  4. ^ "Process for Meaningful Consultation of Indigenous Peoples". caid.ca. Retrieved 2024-08-19.