Editing Oral tradition (section)

==== Recording a tradition ====
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{{blockquote|Ask him now to repeat the story slowly so that you may write it. You will, with patience, get the gist of it, but the unnaturalness of the circumstance disconcerts him, your repeated request for the repetition of a phrase, the absence of the encouragement of his friends, and, above all, the hampering slowness of your pen, all combine to kill the spirit of storytelling.  Hence we have to be content with far less than the tales as they are told. |author=[[Edwin W. Smith|E.W. Smith]] and [[Andrew Murray Dale|A.M. Dale]] |title=''The Ila-speaking peoples of Northern Rhodesia'' (1920) |source=<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1= E.W. |last2=Dale |first2=A.M. |title=The Ila-speaking peoples of Northern Rhodesia |year=1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/ilaspeakingpeopl01smit}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |journal=Oral Tradition |url=https://journal.oraltradition.org/wp-content/uploads/files/articles/9i/1d_Introduction_9_1.pdf |volume=9 |issue=1 |year=1994 |first=Lee |last=Haring |title=Introduction: The Search for Grounds in African Oral Tradition}}</ref>}}