Oral tradition: a study in historical methodology (Record no. 59039)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780367474690 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 907.2 VAN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vansina, Jan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Oral tradition: a study in historical methodology |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Routledge, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xx, 226p.: |
| Other physical details | pbk.: |
| Dimensions | 23cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Appendix, Notes, Bibliography and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. Do the special characteristics of oral traditions u "unwritten" information dependent on the memory of successive generations u invalidate them as sources of historical data? If not, are there means for testing their reliability? Professor Vansina shows in Oral Tradition that with knowledge of the language and of the society, the anthropologist and historian can extract or deduce the historical content of oral testimonies. Based on the author's 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, offers a typology of oral traditions, and evaluates methods of collection and interpretation. On first publication, Daniel McCall in the American Anthropologist called Oral Tradition " a tour de force. Indeed this may well be the most significant work written on the relation of oral tradition to history in thirty years for any field worker who intends to collect oral traditions, this work is indispensable."<br/><br/>https://www.routledge.com/Oral-Tradition-A-Study-in-Historical-Methodology/Vansina/p/book/9780202308197 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Humanities |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Oral traditions |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Oral transmission |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Historical data |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Anthropologist |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wright, H.M. |
| Relator term | Translator |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 21/09/2023 | Himanshu books | 1798.71 | 907.2 VAN | 033409 | 21/09/2023 | 1 | 1798.71 | Books |
