Ben Moore-Bemba-
I read an article about the Bemba Tribe and their need to continue their oral culutre successfully. The article was by Kevin Maxwell and it was very intriguing because it discussed Walter Ong in the article. Maxwell researched what Bemba tribe had to do so that they would continue on as a oral culture. The culture is carried on primarily by spoken words that as he described give power of presence of the individual. The culture started to see downfall in their oral traditions and they acted upon this by using literate methods to reestablish their orality. The tribe began to switch into Christinatiy and began to use the writing styles as a way to save their culture. I wonder if there are any other cultures that are oral that have had to switch to a literate system just to kep their culture and traditions alive?
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