Jan Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017)[1] 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."[2]
^"Trailblazing African History Scholar Jan Vansina Passes Away". 13 February 2017.
^Joseph C. Miller, "Vansina, Jan," in Kelly Boyd., ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, vol 2. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1252–53. ISBN 9781884964336.
JanVansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa...
the prehistoric human migrations. This geographical proximity, states JanVansina, suggests that the Congo river region, home of the Kongo people, was...
Exploration of Ethics. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010, ISBN 0253222443 Vansina, Jan: "Oral Tradition as History", 1985, James Currey Publishers, ISBN 0-85255-007-3...
Bethwell A. Ogot, etc. It also included non-African experts, such as JanVansina, Jean Devisse [fr] and Philip Curtin. The main preoccupation of Phase...
ISBN 9780199398201. JanVansina (2001). Le Rwanda ancien: le royaume nyiginya (in French). KARTHALA. p. 221. ISBN 9782845861459. JanVansina (2004). Antecedents...
and JanVansina use an approximate number of 10 million. Hochschild cites several recent independent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina...
it was the office of the King of the Ashanti Empire. Scholars such as JanVansina have described the governance of the Ashanti Empire as a federation where...
their history, which still persists in many countries today. Historian JanVansina (1962) discusses the classification of Sub-Saharan African Kingdoms,...
JanVansina, Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1990 Jan Vansina...
Hochschild and JanVansina use the number 10 million. Hochschild cites several recent independent lines of investigation, by anthropologist JanVansina and others...
and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu states in Angola, Oxford: Clarendon, 1976 JanVansina Kingdoms of Savanna: A History of the Central African States until European...
Mario Pinto de Andrade, M'hamed Alaoui Abdalaoui, Daniel P. Kunene and JanVansina. Mugo, Delfhin (5 October 2020). "The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing...
won and declared its independence, which was also claimed by historian JanVansina in 1966 and then others, but this appears to have been a misreading of...
original on 2004-09-05. Retrieved 2004-08-06. 1 How Societies Are Born by JanVansina: "Of Water, Cattle, and Kings" Boy-Wives and Female Husbands edited by...
that of June 13, 1741, and another one on April 13, 1763. "Olny.nl". Vansina, Jan. 2004. Antecedents to Modern Rwanda : The Nyiginya Kingdom. Africa and...
toll. He cites several recent lines of investigation, by anthropologist JanVansina and others, that examine local sources (police records, religious records...
2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) JanVansina, Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in...
Accounts of the regional royal lineages have led some historians such as JanVansina to the conclusion that Bugesera originally dominated Rwanda, with the...
Vol. 5 (1978), pp. 153–167. online Robertshaw, Peter. "Rivals no more: JanVansina, precolonial African historiography, and archaeology." History in Africa...
Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800. Psychology Press. 1999. ISBN 9781857283921. JanVansina, Kingdoms of the Savanna, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press...
Sudanic languages in the vicinity of modern Uganda and Kenya, while JanVansina argues instead that they originated in non-Bantu languages in Nigeria...
attacked the Kingdom of Kongo during the reign of Alvaro I. In the 1960s, JanVansina and David Birmingham hypothesized that the oral traditions of the Lunda...
1928) Maurice Tempelsman, diamond merchant and industrialist (born 1929) JanVansina, historian and anthropologist (born 1929) Françoise Mallet-Joris, writer...
mid-18th century. JanVansina suggests from the oral traditions that he was the victim of a coup by Cyilima II Rujugira. Vansina, Jan. 2004. Antecedents...
reached its peak in the second half of the nineteenth. The historian JanVansina divides Kuba history in six phases surrounding a chronology of leaders...
Royal Families of the World gives his regnal dates as 1768 to 1792, and JanVansina claims 1786 to 1796. Kubwimana suggests his rule as lasting from 1708...
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