Oral tradition as process - Performance, tradition and text - Getting the message - The message is a social product - The message expresses culture - Tradition as information remembered - Oral tradition assessed
This is a completely different book from the original Oral
Tradition (1961 and 1966) and hence it is right that it should have
a different title. It is also a very much better book than the
original, though it does not have the pioneering importance which
made the original an academic best-seller ... . It addresses itself
directly and without apology to an account of the process by which
oral history is produced ... . The result is an enormously more
subtle and convincing book than the original ... . Its appeal
should not be limited to historians of Africa nor indeed to
historians as such since it has very interesting things to say
about the structuring of human memory and very effective criticisms
to make of structuralism. In short it is a remarkable book. -
*Terence Ranger*
It will take its place as the most important treatment of the
subject and it will appeal to all historians and social scientists
who make use of oral evidence or who feel they ought to do so.
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*A.G. Hopkins, Professor of Economic History in the University of
Birmingham*
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