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The 268 pages that link to Oral tradition, each with the reason it gives.

• Buddhist hagiographyCompared with: Many life stories circulated orally, but hagiography names the narrative genre rather than its mode of transmission.

• DipavamsaRelated: Earlier historical and religious traditions may underlie the chronicle’s written narratives.

• European folkloreRelated: Oral transmission has shaped how many European traditions vary and endure.

• History of musicRelated: Many musical histories depend on performance and memory rather than scores.

• LapulapuRelated: Oral histories may preserve local perspectives that European written accounts omit.

• Manuscript traditionCompared with: Oral transmission can vary without the written exemplars central to manuscript lineages.

• Playground gameRelated: Rhymes and rules often spread without written instructions.

• Pre-Columbian eraRelated: Oral histories preserve Indigenous accounts that complement archaeological evidence.

• Sacred TraditionRelated: Early Christian teaching was handed on orally before and alongside its written forms.

• Sheet musicCompared with: Music can pass between performers without being fixed in a written score.

• Their Eyes Were Watching GodNarrower topic: The novel draws on spoken storytelling and communal exchanges rather than treating speech as mere ornament.

• Turkish folk musicNarrower topic: Songs often survive through learning, variation, and performance rather than fixed scores.

• VariolationRelated: Many accounts of inoculation’s origins rely on practices transmitted orally rather than contemporary written records.

• Vedic chantNarrower topic: Vedic chant is a highly disciplined instance of long-term oral transmission.

• Achim von ArnimRelated: Arnim and Brentano transformed orally circulating material into a printed literary collection.

• Al-BaladhuriRelated: Many early conquest reports circulated orally before historians assembled them in written works.

• Christian hagiographyRelated: Accounts circulating orally could supply material for written lives and local cults.

• LéoninRelated: Much medieval music circulated through performance, complicating efforts to connect surviving pieces to Léonin.

• Medieval travel literatureRelated: Writers often incorporated reports and marvels learned from others rather than witnessed firsthand.

• Ama Ata AidooRelated: Aidoo adapted spoken storytelling and performance traditions in her literary forms.

• Bella ciaoNarrower topic: Changing lyrics and melodies make the song’s early history difficult to establish.

• BluebeardNarrower topic: Bluebeard belongs to a broader folk tradition that predates and exceeds its printed versions.

• Evliya ÇelebiRelated: Some stories in the Seyahatname may preserve spoken accounts rather than direct observation.

• JahiliyyahNarrower topic: Much knowledge of pre-Islamic Arabia passed through oral forms later recorded in writing.

• Nadezhda MandelstamNarrower topic: Memorization let Nadezhda preserve poems when keeping written copies was perilous.

• Origin of languageRelated: It shows how language can preserve shared knowledge without writing.

• ProtohistoryRelated: Oral transmission may preserve local perspectives absent from outsider-authored texts.

• Quranic studiesRelated: Recitation and memorization complement manuscript evidence in accounts of transmission.

• Rainbow SerpentRelated: Serpent accounts are maintained and taught through community-specific forms of knowledge transmission.

• Sankoré MadrasahCompared with: Sankoré’s manuscript culture existed alongside oral teaching and transmission.

• Tecún UmánRelated: Stories of Tecún Umán circulated and changed beyond the surviving written accounts.

• XenophanesRelated: His attacks on poets address traditions that shaped Greek views of divine character.

• Antarah ibn ShaddadRelated: Oral transmission helps explain how poems and stories about Antarah changed over time.

• Antoine GallandRelated: Galland incorporated tales he heard from Hanna Diyab rather than finding them in his manuscript.

• AranyakaRelated: Aranyakas were preserved and transmitted within Vedic recitation traditions.

• Epic of ManasNarrower topic: This broader process carries the epic between performers and communities.

• Friedrich August WolfRelated: Wolf’s reconstruction depends on the possibility that Homeric poetry circulated orally before being written down.

• Madame d’AulnoyRelated: D’Aulnoy reshaped familiar oral motifs into crafted literary narratives.

• MancalaRelated: Rules and histories of many mancala games have been passed on through play and speech.

• Muthuswami DikshitarRelated: Musicians have preserved and varied Dikshitar’s repertoire through generations of oral teaching.

• Persian mythologyRelated: Oral transmission helps explain how legends survived beyond the earliest surviving texts.

• Purandara DasaRelated: Oral transmission helps explain both the survival of his songs and uncertainties about attribution.

• Raja RaoRelated: Rao adapts the rhythms and communal authority of oral storytelling in Kanthapura.

• The Travels of Marco PoloRelated: Polo dictated the account, making spoken recollection part of its composition.

• Violeta ParraNarrower topic: The songs she collected survived through memory and performance before entering her repertoire.

• Wilhelm GrimmRelated: Oral storytelling supplied some narratives that the Grimms recorded and published.

• Amadou Hampâté BâNarrower topic: Bâ treated spoken narratives as historical and intellectual sources, not merely folklore.

• Galician-Portuguese lyricRelated: Performance likely shaped songs before and alongside their preservation in manuscripts.

• Histoires ou contes du temps passéRelated: Oral circulation helps explain why Perrault’s plots have many related versions.

• History of communicationRelated: Before widespread writing, memory and performance preserved shared knowledge.