Jan Vansina Belgian Anthropologist
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| First Name |
Jan
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| Last Name |
Vansina
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| Birthday |
14th September, 1929
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| Birthplace |
Antwerp, Belgium
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| Died |
8th February, 2017
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| Place of Death |
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Nationality |
Belgian
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| Occupation |
Anthropologist
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Jan Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) 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 history. 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."
