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Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology Book

Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are unwritten sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing, oral tradition forms the main available source for a reconstruction of the past. Based on the authors many years of fieldwork in Africa, this definitive work explores the possibility of reconstructing the history of non-literate peoples from their oral traditions, surveys existing literature, and evaluates methods of collection and interpretation. On first publication, Daniel McCall in the American Anthropologist called Oral Tradition a tour de force.Read More

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  • 0202308197
  • 9780202308197
  • J. Vansina
  • 15 March 2006
  • AldineTransaction
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 226
  • New edition
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