I'm sure an anthropologist would be very interested in this. We, however, are writing an encyclopedia, not compiling an oral history of the world. There are enough areas of human knowledge that we don't have sufficiently covered that fall under the scope of our quixotic mission without creating all new categories of things to accomplish.
On 3/2/06, Nicholas Moreau beaubeaver@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Suppose a tribes' elder writes an article on his village, he'll do it based on oral history, or one-off documents. This information may be recorded in books, but these books are stashed away in libraries miles upon miles away.