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About the Author
Jan Vansina, Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was named the Distinguished Africanist of 1986 and awarded the Herskovits Prize for Kingdoms of the Savanna in 1967, garnering the top two honors given by the African Studies Association Vansina is the author of more than twenty books, including Living with Africa and Paths in the Rainforests.
Reviews
Even scholars who know better tend to assume without thinking that the people the Portuguese found had been the same since time began. - Book News, Inc. ""How Societies Are Born represents a political and agrarian history of a period and region for which absolutely no scholarly histories have been written, and Vansina possesses rare and unmatched skills in marshaling a recalcitrant and multilingual body of historical sources."" - David Schoenbrun, Northwestern University, author of A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity between the Great Lakes to the 15th Century
Book Information
ISBN 9780813922805
Author Jan Vansina
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint University of Virginia Press
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Weight(grams) 496g