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Living with Africa
Vansina
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Description for Living with Africa
Paperback. Sent to the Congo (Zaire) in the 50s, as fieldworker for a Belgian cultural agency, Vansina helped to found the field of African history as a scholarly speciality. This memoir describes Vansina's life and career on three continents, against the background of the collapse of colonialism in Africa. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; BGHA; HBTQ; HBTR; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history travelled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help to found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. ""I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!"" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he ... Read more
In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history travelled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help to found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. ""I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!"" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299143244
SKU
V9780299143244
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About Vansina
Jan Vansina is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and the Vilas Professor in History and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include his 1994 memoir Living with Africa, Oral Tradition as History, Kingdoms of the Savanna, and The Children of Woot, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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