Oral tradition as history:
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Woodbridge [u.a.]
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments xi xv CHAPTER ONE ORAL TRADITION AS PROCESS I. The Generation of Messages (1) News (a) Eyewitness (b) Hearsay (c) Visions, Dreams, and Hallucinations 3 3 3 4 6 7 (2) The Interpretation of Experience (a) Reminiscence (b) Commentaries (c) Verbal Art 7 8 10 11 (3) Oral History 12 II. Dynamic Processes of OralTradition 13 (1) Memorized Speech 14 (2) Accounts (a) Historical Gossip (b) Personal Tradition (c) Group Account (d) Traditions of Origin and Genesis (e) Cumulative Accounts 17 17 18 19 21 24 v
Contents vi (3) Epic 25 (4) Tales, Proverbs, and Sayings 25 III. Oral Tradition as a Source ofHistory 27 (1) Definition 27 (2) Oral Tradition as Evidence (a) From Observation to Permanent Record (b) Evidence of What? 29 29 31 chapter two PERFORMANCE, TRADITION, AND TEXT 33 I. Performance 34 (1) Performing 34 (2) Performers 36 II. Performance and Tradition 39 (1) Reproduction of Performances (a) Frequency, Time, and Place (b) The Intent of the Performance (c) Remembering: Cueing and Scanning (d) Mnemotechnic Devices (i) Objects (ii) Landscapes (iii) Music (e) Learning 39 39 41 42 44 44 45 46 47 (2) Variability Within a Tradition (a) Poems and Their Kin (b) Epic (c) Narrative 48 48 51 53 (3) Authenticity, Antiquity, and Authorship 54 III. Recording Traditions (1) Incidental and Accidental Mentions 56 57
vii Contents (2) Systematic Research 58 (3) The Recording Situation 59 IV. Testimony and Text 63 (1) Verbal Testimony 63 (2) Text 66 CHAPTER THREE GETTING THE MESSAGE I. Form and 68 68 Content (1) Linguistic Form 69 (2) Internal Structure 71 (3) Genres 79 II. Meaning 83 (1) Apparent Meaning 84 (2) Intended Meaning (a) Metaphor and Metonym (b) Stereotype 86 87 88 III. The Aims of the Message 91 CHAPTER FOUR THE MESSAGE IS A SOCIAL PRODUCT I. The Social Uses of Messages (1) The Institutional Framework (a) Performance and Institution (b) Social Control of Information (c) Official and Private Traditions (2) Messages as Tools (a) Functions 94 95 95 95 96 98 100 100
viii Contents (b) (c) (d) (e) Tradition as Weapon Ideological Uses Idealization Whose Past is History? 102 103 105 107 (3) Performers (a) The Usual Performing Situation (b) A Novel Recording Situation 108 109 110 II. Tradition Mirrors Society (1) The Congruence of Traditions and Society 114 114 (2) How Is Such Congruence Attained? (a) The Limits of Society and the Limits of Tradition (b) Significance (c) Repertory 116 116 118 119 (3) Homeostasis 120 CHAPTER FIVE THE MESSAGE EXPRESSES CULTURE I. The Substance of Culture 124 124 (1) Basic Concepts (a) Space (b) Time (c) Historical Truth (d) Historical Causality and Change 125 125 127 129 130 (2) Worldview (a) Finding Worldviews (b) Effects of Worldviews 133 133 136 II. Images and Clichés Representations as Collective 137 (1) Images 137 (2) Clichés 139
Contents ix (3) Interpreting Clichés: The Mbegha Case 140 (4) The Validity of Interpretations and Implicit Meaning 142 six chapter TRADITION AS INFORMATION REMEMBERED 147 I. The Corpus as a Pool of Information 148 (1) What Is the Corpus? (a) The Corpus Is Collective (b) Properties of the Corpus 148 148 150 (2) Information Flows (a) In a Single Society (b) In Several Societies (i) Wandersagen (ii) Feedback (c) Capturing the Information Flows 152 152 154 155 156 157 (3) The Interdependence of Traditions 158 II. The Corpus as Remembered over Time 160 (1) The Fallacy of Structuralism (a) Assumptions and Theory (b) Procedure of Analysis 162 162 163 (2) Structuring 165 (3) Structuring of Narrative Accounts 167 (4) Effects of Structuring 172 III. Chronology and Information Remembered 173 (1) Measurement of Time 174 (2) Memory Organizes Sequences 176
x Contents (3) Sources for Dating: Lists and Genealogies (a) Lists (b) Genealogies 178 179 182 CHAPTER SEVEN ORAL TRADITION ASSESSED 186 I. The Limitations of Oral Tradition Outside Sources and 186 (1) Chronology and Interdependence 187 (2) Selectivity and Interpretation 190 (3) Degree of Limitations 192 II. The Uniqueness of Oral Tradition 193 (1) As a Source 193 (2) As Inside Information 197 III. Conclusion 199 Notes Bibliography Index 205 229 247
This is a completely different book from the original Or«/ Tradition (1961) and hence it is right that it should have a different title. It is also a very much better book than the original, though Rh it does not have the pioneering importance which made the originaí^L an academic best-seller. This new book does not bother, as the o!d one did, to arguee with now obscure historians about the validity of using oral evidence. It addresses itself directly and without apology to an account of the process bý which oral history is produced. In so doing it takes into account thç many developments of technique and interpretation which have developed, often in dialogue between Professor Vansina and his own pupils. It does not show an undue self-consciousness about such controversies nor does it make much if anything of recantation or repentance; nevertheless anyone familiar with the literature will find the book fascinating for the judgements made, often implicitly, on the state of the art and for the second thoughts, sometimes explicitly stated as such on Vansina s own part. The result is an enormously more subtle and convincing book than the original. It is important that it is being published in order to repłace the original which still obstinately retains its role as a handbook and guide. But it is important quite on its own. It shows a mastery of many disciplines and an independence of mind in regard to intellectual fashions which are wholly admirable. Its appeal should not be limited to historians of Africa nor indeed to historians as such since it has very interesting things
to say about the structuring of human memory and very effective criticisms to make of structuralism. In short it is a remarkable book.
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