💎 Jan Vansina (ed.) - The Historian in Tropical Africa - African History and Oral Traditions in Historical Research

The essays examine the methods and sources available to historians working on Africa, with particular attention to oral traditions, archaeology, linguistics and documentary evidence. At a time when African history was emerging as a distinct academic field, the contributors explored new approaches to reconstructing the histories of societies whose past had often been preserved through oral transmission rather than written records.

Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. 428 pages. English / French. Includes index. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Condition: name on front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.