Jan Vansina (1929–2017)

Autor von Oral tradition as history

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Belgium-born and educated, Jan Vansina is known internationally for his many contributions to social anthropology and to African history. Currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he received his Ph.D. in modern history from the University of Leuven in 1957, during which time mehr anzeigen he was a research scholar at the International Center for African Research in Belgium. That same year he became director of the center, a position he held for the next several years. After serving for some time as professor of history and anthropology, he joined the University of Wisconsin at Madison as the Vilas Research Professor. He has held concurrent positions as visiting lecturer at the University of Lovanium, Leopoldville, and at Northwestern University and as visiting professor and then professor at the University of Lovanium, Kinshasha. Vansina is one of the foremost pioneers in the development of techniques and methods in the history of culture that employ the use of oral traditions in the search for the African past. Although he was not the first scholar to use oral traditions in African history, he was the first scholar to evolve a rational methodology---one that has become the standard adopted by Africanists in many disciplines for using oral data. The evolution of Vansina's rational methods for the most effective use of oral traditions is reflected in his many publications, the most recent of which is Paths in the Rainforest: Towards a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (1990). In this work he has successfully resolved a question that has long perplexed historians of Africa---how the Bantu peoples passed from their origins in the Niger-Benue region through the great tropical rainforests of Zaire to the savanna lands to the south, where they proliferated throughout eastern, central, and southern Africa. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

Beinhaltet die Namen: J Vansina, Jan Vanuna, Vansina Jan, Jan M. Vansina

Werke von Jan Vansina

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Oral tradition as history (1985) 110 Exemplare

Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (1990) 45 Exemplare

Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology (1961) 39 Exemplare

Kingdoms of the Savanna (1966) 26 Exemplare

Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (1965) 24 Exemplare

Art history in Africa : an introduction to method (1984) 23 Exemplare

How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600 (2004) 22 Exemplare

Living With Africa (1994) 20 Exemplare

The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples (1978) 15 Exemplare

Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880-1960 (2010) 9 Exemplare

Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentées. Part I / Central Africa Belgian Congo (2017) 4 Exemplare

Esquisse de grammaire bushong 3 Exemplare

Through the Day, through the Night: A Flemish Belgian Boyhood and World War II (2014) 2 Exemplare

La tradición oral (1968) 2 Exemplare

The Historian in Tropical Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fourth International African Seminar at the… (2020) 1 Exemplar

Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology (2017) 1 Exemplar

Tradisi lisan sebagai sejarah (2014) 1 Exemplar

La tradizione orale: saggio di metodologia storica 1 Exemplar

In Pursuit of History: Fieldwork in Africa (Social History of Africa) (1996) 1 Exemplar

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform: Vansina, Jan
Andere Namen: Vansina, J.
Geburtstag: 1929-09-14
Todestag: 2017-02-08
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: Belgium
Geburtsort: Antwerp, Belgium
Sterbeort: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Wohnorte: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ausbildung: Catholic University of Leuven (Doctorate|History|1957)
Berufe: historian
anthropologist
professor
Beziehungen: Newbury, David (doctoral student)
Vansina, Dirk (vader)
Organisationen: University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Kingdoms of the Savanna von Vansina J

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oirm42 | May 22, 2018 |

Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of… von Jan M. Vansina

This book has now become something of a classic, and I bought it for background in teaching Africa in a world history class. It attempts to trace the history of the Bantu expansion in, roughly speaking, the western Congo basin [primarily by relying on deduction from the comparative dating of languages in the Western Bantu group. When originally written, it was challenging the then still popular view that the people of the rainforest had no meaningful history, not just because they lacked written records but also because their culture was assumed to have been static for millennia. Vansina has, I think, been successful I persuading many scholars that it is worthwhile to try to study the past history of social developments in the region, particular the Bantu expansion, but I gather from reading other articles than not everyone agrees with his particular reconstruction.… (mehr)

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antiquary | Jul 8, 2015 |

De la Tradition orale : Essai de méthode historique… von Jan Vansina

Theoretische uiteenzetting over de mondelinge overlevering, sterk gericht op Afrika.

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bookomaniac | Oct 3, 2010 |

Oral Tradition As History von Jan M. Vansina

I was a bit surprised by the methodological emphasis of this book, its focus is clearly on how historians should make use of oral traditions. I was expecting more generalizations about oral traditions, how they arise and how they are transmitted. Its a well written and clearly argued book, but I don't think it offers much to people who aren't active practitioners of oral historiography.

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thcson | 1 weitere Rezension | Jun 23, 2010 |

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