Compelling Vansina: Contributions to Early African History

Autor:	Kathryn M. de Luna
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	History 060102 archaeology Aesthetics Narrative style 05 social sciences Ethnography 0507 social and economic geography 0601 history and archaeology 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies History of Africa Variety (cybernetics)
Zdroj:	History in Africa. 45:161-173
ISSN:	1558-2744 0361-5413
DOI:	10.1017/hia.2018.10
Popis:	This short essay explores Jan Vansina’s contributions to the study of Africa’s early pasts. In particular, it explores the impact of sustained ethnographic fieldwork on Vansina’s narrative style, which often imagined for deeper pasts the sorts of small-scale social interactions definitive of most experiences of fieldwork. This narrative style produced a tension between Vansina’s interest in large-scale institutions and historical processes and the smaller-scale social interactions sustaining them, offering us new research topics. Attention to the historical significance of the sorts of intimate interactions imagined by Vansina requires new approaches to the variety of archives he compelled us to consider in the pages of this journal.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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