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Oral traditions: Whose history?
The Journal of Pacific History, 1981Historians rarely pause to reflect on the history and theory of our own discipline, but it is a salutary exercise, particularly when the discipline is as young as African history. Twenty years ago a majority of African peoples emerged from colonial domination and acquired their independence.
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The Journal of African History, 1986
The author reviews the developing uses of oral sources in recent Africanist history, and argues that the original expectations about ‘oral tradition’ derived from contemporary structural functionalism. Changing one's model of social action therefore entails a change in the evaluation of oral data, and some of the consequences, according to different ...
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The author reviews the developing uses of oral sources in recent Africanist history, and argues that the original expectations about ‘oral tradition’ derived from contemporary structural functionalism. Changing one's model of social action therefore entails a change in the evaluation of oral data, and some of the consequences, according to different ...
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Small Group Behavior, 1989
The telling of stories provides rich information about organizations, groups, and cultures as well as about the teller of the tale. Although written traditions tend to fossilize stories and legends, the oral tradition keeps these tales vital and relevant. A method for the analysis of this fantasy material is presented, and several examples relating to
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The telling of stories provides rich information about organizations, groups, and cultures as well as about the teller of the tale. Although written traditions tend to fossilize stories and legends, the oral tradition keeps these tales vital and relevant. A method for the analysis of this fantasy material is presented, and several examples relating to
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2018
The Bedouin oral literary product—proverbs, genealogies, tribal stories, and poetry—shares many likenesses with these genres as they appear in the Hebrew Bible. This commonality pertains, even though some Bedouin oral traditions survived until the late twentieth century CE, when they were still heard recited, while the biblical traditions existed ...
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The Bedouin oral literary product—proverbs, genealogies, tribal stories, and poetry—shares many likenesses with these genres as they appear in the Hebrew Bible. This commonality pertains, even though some Bedouin oral traditions survived until the late twentieth century CE, when they were still heard recited, while the biblical traditions existed ...
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Health insurance status and cancer stage at diagnosis and survival in the United States
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jingxuan Zhao +2 more
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