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ORALITY AND LITERACY (benefits and pitfalls in research (difficulties…

- - - - prejudiced against literary influence
      - oral culture 'tainted'
      - Apo - 3rd option
        
        new pluralistic history - multiple sources
  - - - mostly impossible
        
        storyline & textual coherence
      - beyond text - chronicles, diaries, etc.
    - - may be limited/biased/missing
      - da Silva - oldest KNOWN source
  - - - absence of any textual influence/record
      - no primary text/archetype
    - - 'fullness of life itself'
      - acknowledging both - fuller understanding
- - - - some traditions more inclined
      - experiences rarely isolated
        
        Gaelic trad narrative
    - - horses automobiles without wheels
    - - literature played a major role in tales
      - books not separate from orality
  - - - 'cultural backbone'
    - - Bottigheimer - invariant retellings
      - not possible reliant on memory alone?
      - scholarship against
    - - oral culture capable
- - - - followed sequentially
      - actually, enjoyed usihng same style
    - - popularity - complemented literate experience
      - printing press
      - criticism - da Silva
        
        scant printed works
    - - not a dichotomy
      - dynamic confluence of orality & literacy (Lamb)