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Question about Time and Orality

Subject History

History

Source Originais Teachy

Originais Teachy

Topic Time and Orality

Time and Orality

Difficulty Hard

Hard

(Originais Teachy 2023) - Question Hard of History

In the oral tradition of African peoples, elders played a fundamental role in transmitting knowledge and preserving the group's history. They told stories that served as teaching tools and ways to record events. An elder of the Yoruba people, for example, could use 'Ifá', the oracular divination system, which not only predicted the future but also recorded the past and preserved ancestral wisdom. Considering these practices and the importance of 'Ifá' for the Yoruba people, how can orality and traditional methods of recording time and history be compared to contemporary practices of archiving and preserving historical knowledge in museums and libraries?

Current archiving methods in museums and libraries are superior because they ensure an exact and indisputable documentation of history, unlike oral tradition which is more susceptible to distortions and forgetfulness.

Orality and 'Ifá' are comparable to contemporary practices of archiving and preserving historical knowledge because both seek to record and transmit history and ancestral wisdom to future generations, albeit through different means and formats.

The oral tradition and 'Ifá' are obsolete methods that have been completely replaced by modern technologies for archiving and preserving knowledge.

Yoruba elders used 'Ifá' exclusively to predict the future, without any interest in preserving the past or ancestral wisdom.

Contemporary practices of archiving and preserving knowledge in museums and libraries have no relation to the transmission of knowledge and the collective memory of communities.

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