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ALDINETRANSACTION PREFACE, ALDINETRANSACTION INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, I. ORAL TRADITION AND HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY, II. TRADITION AS A CHAIN OF TESTIMONIES, III. UNDERSTANDING THE TESTIMONY, IV. THE TESTIMONY AS A MIRAGE OF REALITY, V. THE EVALUATION OF TESTIMONIES, VI. HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, VII. THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED, INDEX

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Robert Loring Allen

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-[I]n its special subject, that of the application of historical methodology to oral traditions, Vansina's study will... become a seminal and highly valued basic work to be rediscovered by each new generation of students.- --Katherine Luomala, Ethnohistory

"[I]n its special subject, that of the application of historical methodology to oral traditions, Vansina's study will... become a seminal and highly valued basic work to be rediscovered by each new generation of students." --Katherine Luomala, Ethnohistory

"[I]n its special subject, that of the application of historical methodology to oral traditions, Vansina's study will... become a seminal and highly valued basic work to be rediscovered by each new generation of students." --Katherine Luomala, Ethnohistory

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