When we say the word "history," doesn't that imply that writing, or some form of documentation, is involved? Therefore, the word "written" in front of it would be pointless, since you're already talking about things that are written about anyway.
This is something that just kind of occurred to me just now. What are everyone else's thoughts on this? Am I just splitting hairs, here?
2006-07-18 14:29:03 · 9 answers · asked by Qchan05 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No, it's not redundant. Yes, other cultures have had pictoral forms that would also be written, but - some cultures also had oral traditions of story telling and history. It increased community, and thus was considered an honor to learn from the person who passed it on as well. Many of the Native American tribes had oral history.
2006-07-18 14:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
No. History wasn't always written down. Before we had printing press history was passed down through oral traditions. Also history can be in the form of pictures and artifacts (homes, tools, clothes, etc). These things do not require writting.
2006-07-18 21:35:43 · answer #2 · answered by butterflykisses427 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as well as drawing the distinction that many have mentioned between the ways human history is recorded the phrase written history also helps to differentiate between the history of human societies and older ("prehistory") periods in the life of the world.
2006-07-18 23:05:22 · answer #3 · answered by richard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A lot of history is oral history. Many people were not literate and passed their history on through stories.
2006-07-18 21:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
History is simply the past. It could be audio. Video. Anything.
2006-07-18 21:32:20 · answer #5 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is oral history and written history
2006-07-18 21:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by senorfrisk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's a difference between history as the reality (what we consider and agree to be "the past") and the form or manner we investigate it or express it...
2006-07-19 19:47:31 · answer #7 · answered by joseph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Semantics, purely semantics. All HISTORY is not written down. eg.'Personal'-history
2006-07-18 21:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by bereftcat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most, if not all of my tribe's history was oral
2006-07-18 22:35:01 · answer #9 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋