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Oral Tradition/ (Record no. 101609)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780367474690 |
| Qualifying information | pbk. |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 907.2 |
| Item number | VAN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author name | Vansina, Jan |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Oral Tradition/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jan Vansina |
| Remainder of title | A Study In Historical Methodology |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xx, 226 pages |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 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that with knowledge of the language and of the society, the anthropologist and historian can extract or deduce the historical content of oral testimonies.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 yearsafor any field worker who intends to collect oral traditions, this work is indispensable.bibliographical references and index. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | include bibliography and index |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | by Wright, H.M. Translator |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Reference |
| Koha item type | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Number | Accession Number | Full call number | Withdrawn status | Lost status | Not for loan | Collection |
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| Reference | Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | நான்காம் தளம் / Fourth floor | 24/05/2023 | 1595.00 | SINV00070/KML/ROUTLEDGE | 231218 | 907.2 VAN | Competitive Section | |||
| English Books | Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | மூன்றாம் தளம் / Third floor | 24/05/2023 | 1595.00 | SINV00070/KML/ROUTLEDGE | 231219 | 907.2 VAN | ENGLISH - LENDING BOOKS |