Origin traditions and history in Central Africa. From: African Arts | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Thornton, John K. | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Regents of the University of California. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Historians using oral traditions must continually grapple with traditions of origin, for unlike scholars of religion, folklore, or ideology, they must determine what is historical and what is legendary in these ancient memories. Yet for Africa these traditions are all that historians have to reconstruct the origins of the societies that they study. Thus, early European historians of central Africa--for example, the great missionary historian Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo,...

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