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Based on the author's many years of fieldwork in Africa, this 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.Vansina, Jan is the author of 'Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology' with ISBN 9780202308197 and ISBN 0202308197.
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