Jan Vansina
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Jan Vansina
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Jan M. J. Vansina was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa, especially of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. He was a major innovator in the historical methodology of oral tradition. As a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he taught several generations of students and, according to a biographer, "set the pace in African historical studies from the 1950s into the 1990s."
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Belgian historian and anthropologist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Vansina
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2006-03-14T00:09:35Z
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2024-09-06T18:34:34Z
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