advanatges and disadvanatges of oral history?

Question

hey does anyone know the disadvanatges and advanatges of oral history please

Answer 1

yeah very very boaring

Answer 2

The main advantage of an oral history is that many centuries down the line, the story remains exactly as first told, even if scholars do not believe this.

Most oral history comes from cultures which are best described a illiterate, but not always so. An illiterate person has a much better memory than a literate person. Why? Because a person who cannot read and write must remember everything which needs to be remembered since none of it can be written down.

In Turkey today there is an illiterate tribe of troubadours, living somewhere in the North of Turkey who perform the ILIAD in it's original sung format - it is thought to be word perfect.

Much oral tradition exists in Britain, mostly in the form of Celtic Myths and Legends.

Greek Mythology is from a written format and therefore probably contains a lot of inaccuracies. Why? Because in ancient times, every time someone wanted to borrow a book from the library, they had to make a copy of the book in written form. You know scribes! Lots of mistakes and whole paragraphs left missing. Thankfully the borrower kept he copy and the original was returned to the Library.

Problem is that Julius Caesar's uncle had a vast library not far from Vasuvius which exploded and the whole thing got burnt to a crisp along with everyone and everything else. Some of the manuscripts are being unravelled [if that's the correct word] as we speak new knowledge of Greek Phylosophy an Science is being revielaved as we speak!!

Also remember that Julius Caesar had the great library at Alexandria in Egypt burnt down. This library contained just about everything the Greeks had committed to paper since the time of Alexander himself.

So - books burnt, what we're left with are copies with mistakes.

Oral tradition contains no mistakes.



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Answer 3

The advantage is that you record a first hand account. The downside is that memories are both faulty and selective. As a lawyer, I know how difficult it is sometimes to correlate different witnesses accounts of the same event. And that event might have happened only months ago. Imagine, therefore, how memory can fade over years - perhaps if you are interviewing a person, say in their 80s, about something that happened in their childhood. Against that, it is said that the older you get the more you remember about your youth and less about what happened last week!

Answer 4

Advantages of oral history are that generations of people may have stories, songs, myths & legends that are taught and learned by whole communities, and which may reveal information about their lifestyles, cultures, beliefs etc. Oral history tends to be more important to non-writing peoples as it is the means by which they learn to memorise the history of their people. There are wonderful examples of African tribes or people from remote Asian villages, that have elders/religious leaders that keep an oral history going back centuries (or possibly millennia).

Disadvantages are that memory may be selective or distorted over time. Individuals may 'remember' events differently; groups of people may have changed their customs over the generations, or added their own interpretations of traditional stories. As cultures meet or merge there may have been a need to adapt or conform; political, social or religious factors may also affect the ways oral history is continued.

Answer 5

The principal problem is that memory is faulty - several people can remember the same event and not seem to be referring to the same thing. The advantage is also to do with the personal experience of the teller - often little pieces of information can be very revealing.

Answer 6

the main advantage to oral history, oral tradition is that it is the most compelling way to transmit information person to person. there is nothing so wonderful as being up close to a masterful speaker, watching his or her facial expressions and gestures to punctuate their meanings, appreciating their intonation, (who else has noticed that well acted shakespeare is easy to understand while reading him can sometimes be a rough go?). and spoken words ignite the imagination in the way that nothing else can, mainly because it is privately, subjectively, personally visualized and felt. with movies we rely upon experts. this takes us to fairy tales. what is a fonder memory in a child than a parent or grandparent who relates stories WITHOUT the book in front of their face. this is the way humanity was raised evolutionarily speaking. little kids under the covers, staring up at a beloved face in awe, thrilling to the words that come out of a loving mouth. such storytelling is a gift of a lifetime.

oral history need be under no more suspicion than written texts as to their accuracy. written texts are merely oral ones written down. their main advantage is preservation beyond the death of the one relating the information.

but much as i love it, reading has some negatives associated with it. it's lonely, many people don't like to be alone. it's quiet, and many people, and most children, don't like it quiet. it's such an abstract skill to decipher quickly and easily written symbols to sounds, these groups of letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs into stories, stories into life experience to make them relate meaningfully. and no written page has the beauty of a human face speaking. reading silently is a recent development. it started with monks reading the bible silently. the ancient greeks and romans read aloud. they always moved their lips when reading! i think so should we!

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Answer 7

advantage is that the information can be explained clearly by the person. the disadvantage is, memory is faulty and persons could say a different version from what was handed over

Answer 8

ADVANTAGES
- Someone who was there
- Possible diaries & other material available
- A LIVING link with the past

DISADVANTAGES
- Memory alters over time
- Person not fully aware of 'The bigger picture'
- Possibility of 'enhancing' their role
- Limited time span available

Answer 9

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