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Books by Jan Vansina
  | | Through the Day, through the Night(1st Edition) A Flemish Belgian Boyhood and World War II by Jan Vansina Paperback, 247 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-29994-1, ISBN: 0-299-29994-5 "One of twelve children in a close-knit, affluent Catholic Belgian family, Jan Vansina began life in a seemingly sheltered environment. But that cocoon was soon pierced by the escalating tensions and violence that gripped Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. In this book Vansina recalls his boyhood and youth in Antwerp, Bruges, and the Flemish countryside as the country was rocked by waves of economic depression, fascism, competing nationalism ..." |
 | | Antecedents to Modern Rwanda(1st Edition) The Nyiginya Kingdom (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture) by Jan Vansina, Michael Schatzberg, David Henige, Thomas Spear, J. Vansina Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20124-1, ISBN: 0-299-20124-4 "To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwandaâs recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots narratives. He describes the genesis of the Hutu and Tutsi identities, their growing social and political differences, their bitter feuds, rev ..." |
 | | Kingdoms of the Savanna(Updated) by Jan Vansina Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 1967 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-03664-5, ISBN: 0-299-03664-2 "Book by Vansina Jan" |
 | | Oral Tradition(1st Edition) A Study in Historical Methodology by Jan Vansina, Selma Leydesdorff, Elizabeth Tonkin, H. M. Wright Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2006 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30819-7, ISBN: 0-202-30819-7 "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 t ..." |
 | | Being Colonized(1st Edition) The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880-1960 (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture) by Jan Vansina, Everett W. Hesse, Thomas Spear, David Henige, Michael G. Schatzberg Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-23644-1, ISBN: 0-299-23644-7 "What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers and students as well as to scholars, the distinguished historian Jan Vansina offers not just accounts of colonial administrators, missionaries, and traders, but the varied voices of a coloniz ..." |
 | | How Societies Are Born Governance in West Central Africa before 1600 by Jan Vansina Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-2280-5, ISBN: 0-8139-2280-1 "Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In this complement to his previous study Pa ..." |
 | | Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentees Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I (Paperback) by Jan Vansina Paperback, Published 2019 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-138-24097-1, ISBN: 1-138-24097-4 |
 | | African History(2nd Edition) From Earliest Times to Independence by Philip D. Curtin, Steven Feierman, Leonard Thompson, Jan Vansina, Lars Eighner, Phillip Curtin Paperback, 568 Pages, Published 1995 by Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0-582-05070-9, ISBN: 0-582-05070-7 "Long established as a standard work, this famous survey explores the history of Africa from earliest times to the end of the colonial period. It is exceptional in its breadth (it provides systematic coverage of the entire continent, including the North), in its range (it establishes a clear political framework, but is still more concerned with social, economic and intellectual trends), and in its quality. Now in this major revision -- t ..." |
 | | Oral Tradition as History by Jan Vansina Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1985 by James Currey ISBN-13: 978-0-85255-007-6, ISBN: 0-85255-007-3 "Although written by a leading historian of Africa, Vansina's work on oral traditions ranges far beyond Africa, so has a wider relevance. Vansina explains not only how oral traditions have been used in the past but also how they should be used by historians in their research. North America: University of Wisconsin Press; Kenya: EAEP" |
 | | Art History in Africa An Introduction to Method by Jan Vansina Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 1984 by Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-582-64367-3, ISBN: 0-582-64367-8 "This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explai ..." |
 | | The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo(1st Edition) 1880-1892 (African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century) (Volume 70) by Jan Vansina, L. V. Thomas, R. Mauny Hardcover, 610 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-59913-0, ISBN: 1-138-59913-1 "Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data. Based on a detailed study of rich docuemntary sources and fieldwork, it analyses the persistent features of Tio social organization and political relations as well as the extensive economic changes associat ..." |
 | | The Historian in Tropical Africa(1st Edition) Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fourth International African Seminar at the University of Dakar, Senegal 1961 ... Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century) by Jan Vansina, R. Mauny, L. V. Thomas, J. Vansina Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-59902-4, ISBN: 1-138-59902-6 "Originally published in 1964 these papers discuss the recovery and critical interpretation of oral traditions and written documents, problems of dating and analysis of material from archaeological sites, the use of linguistic evidence, and methods of historical reconstruction concerning techniques, art styles and changes in social organization. Consideration is also given to wider problems concerning the pre-colonial history of certain ..." |
 | | Paths in the Rainforests Towards a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa by Jan Vansina Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1991 by James Currey ISBN-13: 978-0-85255-074-8, ISBN: 0-85255-074-X "The rainforests of equatorial Africa cover an area almost as large as Western Europe and some 12 million people live there. So why has this area remained without a historiography? Vansina disputes the myth of an unchanging past in a hostile environment and demonstrates that there are rich and complex political, social and economic histories to be uncovered, as varied as the forest habitats themselves. North America: University of Wisco ..." |
 | | Art History in Africa(1st Edition) by Jan Vansina Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 1984 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-582-64368-0, ISBN: 0-582-64368-6 "This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explai ..." |
 | | The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo 1880-1892 (African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century) by Jan Vansina, R. Mauny, L. V. Thomas Paperback, 606 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-59915-4, ISBN: 1-138-59915-8 "Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data." |
 | | Antecedents to Modern Rwanda(1st Edition) The Nyiginya Kingdom (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture) by Jan Vansina, J. Vansina, David Henige, Michael Schatzberg, Thomas Spear Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20120-3, ISBN: 0-299-20120-1 "To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda’s recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots narratives. He describes the genesis of the Hutu and Tutsi identities, their growing social and political differences, their bitter feuds, revol ..." |
 | | Habitat, Economy and Society in the Central Africa Rain Forest(1st Edition) (Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology) by Jan Vansina Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 1992 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-85496-733-9, ISBN: 0-85496-733-8 "Over 50 years ago, the renowned anthropologist Daryll Forde strongly advocated comparative anthropological studies. Professor Vansina argues that 50 years later, Forde's criticisms still apply despite both Forde's considerable intellectual legacy and an exponential increase in available information. Using the example of Central African peoples, Professor Vansina challenges the current scholarship of sociologists and anthropologists, an ..." |
 | | In Pursuit of History (Social History of Africa (Paperback)) by Carolyn Keyes Adenaike, Jan Vansina Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Heinemann ISBN-13: 978-0-435-08992-4, ISBN: 0-435-08992-7 "A fascinating collection of ten papers on fieldwork in Africa-defined as a long stay in a single community-mostly from younger scholars who have conducted research within the past decade. Whereas the methods for using different kinds of sources for African history has been well studied in recent years, the input of field experience itself has been neglected, although it shapes the resulting historical writing in critical ways and often ..." |
 | | Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentées Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I by Jan Vansina Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-24084-1, ISBN: 1-138-24084-2 "Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demogr ..." |
 | | Paths in the Rainforests Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa by Jan Vansina Hardcover, 428 Pages, Published 2006 by Univ Of Wisconsin Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12570-7, ISBN: 0-299-12570-X |
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