Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology

ISBN-13: 9780202308197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 247 str.

Jan Vansina; H. M. Wright; Selma Leydesdorff

Opis

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.

Spis treści

ALDINETRANSACTION PREFACE, ALDINETRANSACTION INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, I. ORAL TRADITION AND HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY, II. TRADITION AS A CHAIN OF TESTIMONIES, III. UNDERSTANDING THE TESTIMONY, IV. THE TESTIMONY AS A MIRAGE OF REALITY, V. THE EVALUATION OF TESTIMONIES, VI. HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, VII. THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED, INDEX

O autorze

Robert Loring Allen