Liptako speaks : history from oral tradition in Africa /

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them against uncritical use of such evidence. In an attempt to determine how much historians can learn about the past from oral traditions, he studies those o...

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Main Author: Irwin, Paul, 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981]
Series:Princeton legacy library
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