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Scenario

How to navigate conflicting oral traditions in community groups

Our storytelling circle started as a way to keep our cultural traditions alive for our kids, but we're realizing that some of us learned very different versions of the same stories and now there's this unspoken tension about whose version is 'right' and whether we should standardize them or let them stay varied.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Multiple carriers of oral tradition discover their variations create competing claims to authenticity that threaten group cohesion.

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Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Oral tradition and knowledge without text?”

Peri

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