Comment on The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lostComments−carlosjobim10moQuestion: What do we call knowledge transfer which came before even oral tradition? I'm talking about things like "hold your axe this way", watching and learning stuff. These traditions are even more easily lost than oral tradition, I'd suppose.−viraptor10moImitative learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitative_learning−carlosjobim10moThanks!
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Question: What do we call knowledge transfer which came before even oral tradition? I'm talking about things like "hold your axe this way", watching and learning stuff. These traditions are even more easily lost than oral tradition, I'd suppose.
Imitative learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitative_learning
Thanks!