According to Jack Goody, the process of safeguarding the intangible involves making a tangible record of it. However, oral heritage presents quite a different problem since first of all the evanescent has to be turned into the permanently visual by means of writing. The shift of a spoken recitation into a written text changes the nature of the work by altering its relation to the society that produced it. These challenges are explored through his publication of the Bagre Myth
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