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 | Furthermore, in oral culture new styles "are seldom if ever explicitly touted for their novelty, but are presented as fitting the traditions of the ancestors," (Ong, 43). |
| In oral culture, knowledge is assimilated to what Ong calls the "human lifeworld," (Ong, 42-3); similarly, in Insular decoration, writing is adapted to the known world by the addition of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures in familiar decorative patterns. |
| Aspects of orality that are known from thte study of present-day oral cultures allow for the analysis of oral features that have survived in these manuscripts, providing valuable clues to the lost Celtic culture. |
| Orality and the Problem of Memory (1454 words) |
| The oral mode of abstraction is deemed ‘unreflective’ meaning that it “does not foster a critical distinction between the knower and the known” (28). |
| Oral culture requires a face-to-face mode of communication that facilitates the sharing of experiences and living each experience imaginatively, hence, these “encounters preclude the separation of the knower form the known” (22). |
| Oral culture finds no use “for preserved communication to store knowledge of everyday practices” as these practices are preserved, not in a container, but through the activity of people living in the oral culture itself (23). |
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