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What are the advantages of using unwritten sources of information on history and government?

      

What are the advantages of using unwritten sources of information on history and government?

  

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Eric
a) Information about people’s movement and relationship is given.
b) It is very efficient where there still existed illiteracy and people could not write or read.
c) It informs us of events in the absence of written materials.
d) Data received is primary/ firsthand so accuracy is enhanced.
e) Materials collected or excavated can be stored in museums for future reference.
f) They create employment in museums where they are stored.
g) Information not captured by written sources can be obtained from oral traditions.
h) There is a sense of reality as it involves things that are seen and touched.
i) Unwritten sources especially linguistics help in discovering the links between different people,
which were previously unknown.
j) Detailed information on material culture may be obtained.
ericmunguti answered the question on September 24, 2018 at 04:59


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