oral literature tradition
C25073
concept
Oral literature tradition is the body of stories, poems, histories, and knowledge transmitted verbally across generations within a culture, rather than through written texts.
Observed surface forms (8)
- storytelling tradition ×2
- Bundelkhand oral tradition ×1
- Mandinka oral tradition ×1
- Native American oral literature ×1
- devotional storytelling tradition ×1
- indigenous oral tradition ×1
- oral tradition literature ×1
- short story tradition ×1
Instances (11)
- Sundanese literature
- ballads of Robin Hood via concept surface "oral tradition literature"
- Akbar–Birbal folklore cycle via concept surface "short story tradition"
- Ossetian literature
- Villupattu via concept surface "storytelling tradition"
- Harikatha (Tamil tradition) via concept surface "devotional storytelling tradition"
- Epic of Sundiata via concept surface "Mandinka oral tradition"
- Choctaw oral literature via concept surface "Native American oral literature"
- Alha-Khand ballads via concept surface "Bundelkhand oral tradition"
- Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) via concept surface "indigenous oral tradition"
- Chakyar Koothu via concept surface "storytelling tradition"