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Jan Vansina - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 
Area:
central African history; oral history
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2012 Vansina J. History in novels and memoirs: Alfons Vermeulen on rural Congo (1899-1904) History in Africa. 39: 123-142. DOI: 10.1353/Hia.2012.0006  0.306
2010 Vansina J. La Survie Du Royaume Kuba A L'Epoque Coloniale Et Les Arts Annales Aequatoria. 28: 5-29. DOI: 10.4314/Aq.V28I1.61763  0.312
2009 Vansina J. Is a Journal of Method Still Necessary History in Africa. 36: 421-438. DOI: 10.1353/Hia.2010.0000  0.311
2007 Vansina J. On Ravenstein's Edition of Battell's Adventures in Angola and Loango History in Africa. 34: 321-347. DOI: 10.1353/Hia.2007.0022  0.304
2006 Vansina J. How to Distil Words and Obtain Culture History History in Africa. 33: 499-511. DOI: 10.1353/Hia.2006.0023  0.308
2001 Vansina J. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION AND TRAVEL ACCOUNTS Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. By JOHANNES FABIAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+320. $50.00, hardback (ISBN 0-520-22122-2); $19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-22123-0). The Journal of African History. 42: 491-544. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853701318145  0.321
2000 Vansina J. Historical Tales ( Ibiteekerezo ) and the History of Rwanda History in Africa. 27: 375-414. DOI: 10.2307/3172121  0.34
2000 Vansina J. Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick. Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, c. 1600–c. 1960. (African Studies Series, number 96.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 252. Cloth $64.95, paper $24.95 The American Historical Review. 105: 653-654. DOI: 10.1086/Ahr/105.2.653-A  0.314
1999 Vansina J. Linguistic Evidence And Historical Reconstruction The Journal of African History. 40: 469-473. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853799007598  0.367
1998 Vansina J, Strother ZS. Z.S. Strother. Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxvii + 348 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. African Studies Review. 41: 178-179. DOI: 10.2307/524848  0.32
1998 Vansina J. It Never Happened: Kinguri's Exodus and its Consequences History in Africa. 25: 387-403. DOI: 10.2307/3172195  0.33
1997 Harris B, Vansina J. Jan Vansina. Living with Africa . Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. xv+312pp. Index. Notes. $40.00. Cloth. $19.95. Paper. African Studies Review. 40: 187-188. DOI: 10.2307/525055  0.318
1997 Vansina J. The Doom Of Early African History History in Africa. 24: 337-343. DOI: 10.2307/3172034  0.315
1997 Vansina J, Austen RA. The Elusive Epic: Performance, Text and History in the Oral Narrative of Jeki la Njambe (Cameroon Coast) International Journal of African Historical Studies. 30: 433. DOI: 10.2307/221271  0.323
1997 Vansina J, Finnegan R, Orbell M. South Pacific Oral Traditions Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 27: 753. DOI: 10.2307/206602  0.311
1996 Vansina J. Quilombos On Sao Tome, Or In Search Of Original Sources History in Africa. 23: 453-459. DOI: 10.2307/3171955  0.326
1995 Whitehead NL, Vansina J. An Interview with Jan Vansina Ethnohistory. 42: 303. DOI: 10.2307/483088  0.349
1995 Vansina J. Historians, are Archeologists Your Siblings? History in Africa. 22: 369-408. DOI: 10.2307/3171923  0.336
1994 Vansina J. A slow revolution : Farming in subequatorial Africa Azania:Archaeological Research in Africa. 15-26. DOI: 10.1080/00672709409511658  0.308
1993 Keim CA, Vansina J. Jan Vansina. Paths in the Rainforests. Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa . Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. xx+428 pp. Bibliography, Index, Maps, Appendix. $45.00. Cloth. $17.50. Paper. African Studies Review. 36: 131-135. DOI: 10.2307/525513  0.326
1993 Vansina J. Unesco and African Historiography History in Africa. 20: 337-352. DOI: 10.2307/3171979  0.322
1993 Vansina J, Comaroff J, Comaroff J. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. International Journal of African Historical Studies. 26: 194. DOI: 10.2307/2166184  0.343
1992 Guyer J, Vansina J. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa Ethnohistory. 39: 510. DOI: 10.2307/481965  0.322
1992 Ehret C, Vansina J. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. The American Historical Review. 97: 592. DOI: 10.2307/2165840  0.322
1989 Vansina J. Deep-Down Time: Political Tradition in Central Africa History in Africa. 16: 341-362. DOI: 10.2307/3171791  0.357
1984 Vansina J. The State and Rural Africa - Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa . By Robert H. Bates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 178. £17.50 ($29.50). The Journal of African History. 25: 477-478. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700028577  0.321
1984 Vansina J. Fang Religious Experience Bwiti. An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa . By J. W. Fernandez. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xxiv + 731. £63.20 (£18.60 paperback). The Journal of African History. 25: 228-230. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700022933  0.33
1983 Vansina J. David Birmingham, Central Africa to 1870: Zambezia, Zaire and the south Atlantic , London: Cambridge University Press, 1981, 178 pp., £15. Africa. 53: 93-94. DOI: 10.2307/1159783  0.351
1982 Vansina J. Towards a History of Lost Corners in the World The Economic History Review. 35: 165-178. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0289.1982.Tb01191.X  0.338
1981 Vansina J. The New African Historiography - The Hidden Hippopotamus. Reappraisal in African History: the early colonial experience in western Zambia . By Gwyn Prins. Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 319. £20. The Journal of African History. 22: 283-285. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700019484  0.343
1979 Vansina J. Bantu in the Crystal Ball: II History in Africa. 6: 287-333. DOI: 10.2307/3171667  0.302
1976 Vansina J. The Cambridge History of Africa The Cambridge History of Africa (general editors: J. D. Fage and R. Oliver), Volume 4: c. 1600 to c. 1790. Edited by Richard Gray. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 738. 19 maps. £15. The Journal of African History. 17: 441-445. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700000530  0.311
1974 Vansina J. The power of systematic doubt in historical enquiry History in Africa. 1: 109-127. DOI: 10.2307/3171764  0.312
1974 Vansina J. Comment: Traditions of Genesis The Journal of African History. 15: 317-322. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700000918  0.362
1971 Vansina J. Our Exploitation of the Linguists Language and History in Africa: A Volume of Collected Papers presented to the London Seminar on Language and History in Africa (Held at the School of Oriental and African Studies 1967–1969). By D. Dalby. Frank Cass, 1970. Pp. xvii + 159. £3·75. The Journal of African History. 12: 493-496. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700010938  0.3
1970 Vansina J. Pre-colonial Trade Pre-colonial African Trade: Essays on Trade in Central and Eastern Africa before 1900. Edited by Richard Gray and David Birmingham. Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. 308, 16 maps. 50s. The Journal of African History. 11: 611-614. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700010525  0.313
1965 Vansina J, Mauny R, Thomas L. The historian in tropical Africa : studies presented and discussed at the fourth International African Seminar at the University of Dakar, Senegal, 1961 The American Historical Review. 70: 785. DOI: 10.4324/9780429485930  0.326
1964 Curtin PD, Vansina J. Sources of the nineteenth century atlantic slave trade The Journal of African History. 5: 185-208. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700004801  0.304
1963 Vansina J. Rwanda History: Military Aspects - Les milices du Rwanda précolonial . By A. Kagame. Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer; Classe des sciences morales et politiques, Mémoires in-8°, NS, Tome XXVIII, fasc. 3; Histoire. Brussels, 1963. Pp. 196. Fr. Belge 200. The Journal of African History. 4: 466-467. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700004370  0.309
1962 Vansina J. A Comparison of African Kingdoms Africa. 32: 324-335. DOI: 10.2307/1157437  0.318
1962 Vansina J. The Anatomy of an African Aristocracy The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda . By J. J. Maquet. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Pp. 199, photographs. 35s. The Journal of African History. 3: 161-162. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700002905  0.325
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