Intro to Oral Cultures

It is a fascinating video, a little slow and partly made for missionary education, but I find the most interesting part of the video is to be found at the very end when you get to see the young boy, maybe early teens, telling what you can make out to be a very exciting and obviously gripping story (by the number of people watching him). Even though we can not understand his language, we can understand the emotions and the tensions just by listening and watching him speak. This is something you absolutely can not do with a piece of literature in a foreign language if you do not understand the language. Hence, we have another downside to literacy. Please, though, feel free to skip around in the video, just make sure to watch the last minute. (Suprisingly, I could not find a single thing on the second part of this video. If anyone else runs by it let me know.)