
Jan Vansina
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Gender | Male |
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Date of birth | September 14,1929 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Antwerp |
Belgium | |
Died | Agrace |
Fitchburg | |
Wisconsin | |
United States | |
Parents | Dirk Vansina |
Doctor student | David Newbury |
Books | Oral tradition as history |
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ID | 3450231 |
Jan Vansina Life story
Jan 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 history.