For
oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (1985 ...
, when stories lead to a
restorying of the past
narrative
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...
, or the future
antenarrative
Antenarrative is the process by which Sensemaking, retrospective narrative is linked to living story. For example, antenarrative bets on the future, which are things one imagines may come into being even if that imagination is not fully formed, dra ...
, they become living stories. For example,
David Boje
David M. Boje is Professor and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow, a past endowed Bank of America professor of management at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces. He has published over 120 journal articles, seventeen books, including Narrative ...
says “living story has many authors and as a collective force has a life of its own. We live in living stories.” In the work of Native scholar
Twotrees, living stories have a mind, a time, and a place. For
Gregory Cajete Gregory A. Cajete is a Tewa author and professor from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.[ ...]
and lived stories are the “life and process of the natural world becoming vehicles for the transmission of culture".
[Cajete, G. (2000). Native Science; Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers. page 94]
References
Oral tradition
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