Living with Africa - Vansina, Jan M
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Sent to the Congo (Zaire) in the 50s, as fieldworker for a Belgian cultural agency, Vansina helped to found the field of African history as a scholarly speciality. This memoir describes Vansina's life and career on three continents, against the background of the collapse of colonialism in Africa.

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Sent to the Congo (Zaire) in the 50s, as fieldworker for a Belgian cultural agency, Vansina helped to found the field of African history as a scholarly speciality. This memoir describes Vansina's life and career on three continents, against the background of the collapse of colonialism in Africa.
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Jan Vansina is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and the Vilas Professor in History and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983 and was the first scholar chosen as "Distinguished Africanist" by the African Studies Association of the United States. His many books include Paths in the Rainforest, Oral Tradition as History, Kingdoms of the Savanna (winner of the 1967 Herskovits Prize), and The Children of Woot, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.