Oral Tradition Society And History

Author : Jan M. Vansina
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299102135

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Oral Tradition as History by Jan M. Vansina Pdf

Jan Vansina’s 1961 book, Oral Tradition, was hailed internationally as a pioneering work in the field of ethno-history. Originally published in French, it was translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Hungarian. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise of Vansina’s success in subjecting oral traditions to intense functional analysis. Now, Vansina—with the benefit of two decades of additional thought and research—has revised his original work substantially, completely rewriting some sections and adding much new material. The result is an essentially new work, indispensable to all students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history who are concerned with the transmission and potential uses of oral material. “Those embarking on the challenging adventure of historical fieldwork with an oral community will find the book a valuable companion, filled with good practical advice. Those who already have collected bodies of oral material, or who strive to interpret and analyze that collected by others, will be forced to subject their own methodological approaches to a critical reexamination in the light of Vansina’s thoughtful and provocative insights. . . . For the second time in a quarter of a century, we are profoundly in the debt of Jan Vansina.”—Research in African Literatures “Oral Traditions as History is an essential addition to the basic literature of African history.”—American Historical Review

Author : Chitrasen Pasayat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : UOM:39015081840368

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Oral Tradition, Society, and History by Chitrasen Pasayat Pdf

Articles in the Indian context; previously published in various journals.

Author : Pertti Anttonen,Cecilia af Forselles,Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9789518580334

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Oral Tradition and Book Culture by Pertti Anttonen,Cecilia af Forselles,Kirsti Salmi-Niklander Pdf

Traditionally, oral traditions were considered to diffuse only orally, outside the influence of literature and other printed media. Eventually, more attention was given to interaction between literacy and orality, but it is only recently that oral tradition has come to be seen as a modern construct both conceptually and in terms of accessibility. Oral traditions cannot be studied independently from the culture of writing and reading. Lately, a new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written documents of oral tradition in and through the archive, into published collections. Book culture also intertwines the process of framing and defining oral genres with literary interests and ideologies. In addition to writing and reading, the study of oral traditions must also take into consideration the culture of publishing. The present volume highlights varied and selected aspects of the expanding field of research into oral tradition and book culture. The questions discussed include the following: How have printing and book publishing set terms for oral tradition scholarship? How have the practices of reading affected the circulation of oral traditions? Which books and publishing projects have played a key role in this and how? How have the written representations of oral traditions, as well as the roles of editors and publishers, introduced authorship to materials customarily regarded as anonymous and collective? The editors represent some of the key institutions in the study of oral traditions in Finland: the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Literature Society, and the University of Eastern Finland. The authors are folklorists, anthropologists, historians and literary historians, and scholars in information studies from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, and the United States.

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202367620

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Oral Tradition by Jan Vansina Pdf

Author : Robert Loring Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351501330

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Oral Tradition by Robert Loring Allen Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199335473

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The Voice of the Past by Paul Thompson Pdf

Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures. At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow. In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oral evidence in comparison with other sources and considers the social context of its development. He looks at the relationship between memory, the self and identity. He traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of a movement which has become international, with notably strong developments in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and the Far East, despite resistance from more conservative academics. This new edition combines the classic text of The Voice of the Past with many new sections, including especially the worldwide development of different forms of oral history and the parallel memory boom, as well as discussions of theory in oral history and of memory, trauma and reconciliation. It offers a deep social and historical interpretation along with succinct practical advice on designing and carrying out a project, The Voice of the Past remains an invaluable tool for anyone setting out to use oral history and life stories to construct a more authentic and balanced record of the past and the present.

Author : Elizabeth Tonkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316583524

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Narrating our Pasts by Elizabeth Tonkin Pdf

This study looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they should be interpreted, and argues for a deeper understanding of their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events are also guides to the future, as well as being social activities in which tellers claim authority to speak to particular audiences. Like written history and literature, orality has its shaping genres and aesthetic conventions and, likewise, has to be interpreted through them. The argument is illustrated through a wide range of examples of memory, narration and oral tradition, including many from Europe and the Americas, and with a particular focus on oral histories from the Jlao Kru of Liberia, with whom Elizabeth Tonkin has carried out extensive research. Tonkin also draws on and integrates the insights of a range of other disciplines, such as literary criticism, linguistics, history, psychology, and communication and cultural studies.

Author : Yusuf M. Juwayeyi,Yusuf M.. Juwayeyi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781847012531

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Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi by Yusuf M. Juwayeyi,Yusuf M.. Juwayeyi Pdf

First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.

Author : Adam Fox,Daniel Woolf
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719057477

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The Spoken Word by Adam Fox,Daniel Woolf Pdf

Previous studies on oral culture have traditionally emphasized the contradictions between oral and literate culture, and focussed on individual countries or regions. The essays in this fascinating collection depart from these approaches in several ways. By examining not only English, but also Scottish and Welsh oral culture, they provide the first pan-British study of the subject. The authors also emphasize the ways in which oral and literate culture continued to compliment and inform each other, rather than focusing exclusively on their incompatibility, or on the 'inevitable' triumph of the written word.

Author : Geneviève Duggan,Hans Hägerdal
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C121206476

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Savu by Geneviève Duggan,Hans Hägerdal Pdf

The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. While Savu is a relatively small island, aspects of its society, as well as this study's blend of anthropology and historical method, makes this book of fundamental relevance to the ongoing comparative examination of Austronesian-speaking populations from Madagascar to Hawaii and from Taiwan to Timor. This book brings together Duggan's detailed understanding of Savunese society and genealogies with Hägerdal's deep knowledge of the Dutch and Portuguese archives to understand the overlap between these perspectives on Savu's past. The text discusses the precolonial period up to the sixteenth century, and then examines how early-colonial encounters with the Portuguese and Dutch (VOC) changed the system of governance. In the nineteenth century, the Savunese embarked on minor colonial enterprises in Timor and Sumba, and were still largely autonomous vis-à-vis the colonial state. Protestant missionaries gained foothold after 1870, though Christianization was a slow process. Colonial rule via a Dutch-appointed raja was introduced in the early twentieth century. The text follows the fate of Savu during the struggle for independence and the postcolonial era, discussing the dilemmas of modernization and the resilience of the unique local culture.

Author : Joseph Calder Miller
Publisher : Folkestone, Eng. : Dawson ; Hamden, Conn. : Archon
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004731512

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The African Past Speaks by Joseph Calder Miller Pdf

Author : Nepia Mahuika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190681708

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Rethinking Oral History and Tradition by Nepia Mahuika Pdf

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more culturally textured than just standard interview recordings. For others, indigenous oral histories are not merely fanciful or puerile myths or traditions, but are viable and valid historical accounts that are crucial to native identities and the relationships between individual and collective narratives. This book challenges popular definitions of oral history that have displaced and confined indigenous oral accounts as merely oral tradition. It stands alongside other marginalized community voices that highlight the importance of feminist, Black, and gay oral history perspectives, and is the first text dedicated to a specific indigenous articulation of the field. Drawing on a Maori indigenous case study set in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book advocates a rethinking of the discipline, encouraging a broader conception of the way we do oral history, how we might define its form, and how its politics might move beyond a subsuming democratization to include nuanced decolonial possibilities.

Author : Kambati K. Uriam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042762057

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In Their Own Words by Kambati K. Uriam Pdf

Author : Hassimi Oumarou Maiga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135227036

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Balancing Written History with Oral Traditions by Hassimi Oumarou Maiga Pdf

This book offers a unique interpretation of Africa’s legacy to the world and the worldwide African Diaspora through bringing to light the sociocultural contributions of the Songhoy people and the cosmopolitan empire they established in West Africa.

Author : Robert D. Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610972710

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Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel by Robert D. Miller Pdf

Providing a comprehensive study of "oral tradition" in Israel, this volume unpacks the nature of oral tradition, the form it would have taken in ancient Israel, and the remains of it in the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible. The author presents cases of oral/written interaction that provide the best ethnographic analogies for ancient Israel and insights from these suggest a model of transmission in oral-written societies valid for ancient Israel. Miller reconstructs what ancient Israelite oral literature would have been and considers criteria for identifying orally derived material in the narrative books of the Old Testament, marking several passages as highly probable oral derivations. Using ethnographic data and ancient Near Eastern examples, he proposes performance settings for this material. The epilogue treats the contentious topic of historicity and shows that orally derived texts are not more historically reliable than other texts in the Bible.