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by ACCOUNT CLOSED on February 13th, 2009

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It's true that both written and oral history are subject to extreme bias and one-sidedness; but isn't oral history further flawed, because there is no way to prove what was spoken (before audio recordings) whereas you CAN find millenia-old texts?

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  • by Trissinger on May 8th, 2009

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    I would have thought that oral history would be extremely flawed. Yet, as I've been reading this book on the Roma people, (BURY ME STANDING by Isabel Fonseca) I've been intrigued by how Roma from different areas in Europe & central Asia have basically the same stories, language, etc. even though Roma in different communities have absolutely no contact with one another.

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