Stepping stones through time

dc.contributor.author	Lyle, Emily	eng
dc.date.issued	2012-03	eng
dc.description	Knowledge must be very differently organized in an oral culture than it is in one with writing and, of course, memory is the key. People remember through time, and the memory of an individual is limited in extent. A society may organize itself in such a way as to maximize the common store of what is remembered and may also find ways of setting aside those matters that lie outside its memory range. In this article I aim to formulate a descriptive model for a society that operates in terms of what I call a "memory capsule" of four generations that provides an expectation of recollection over a period of about a hundred years.	eng
dc.description	Issue title: In Memoriam John Miles Foley January 22, 1947-May 3, 2012.	eng
dc.format.extent	10 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 27/1 (2012): 161-170.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65300
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Stepping stones through time	eng