Dr. Jan Jansen (born 1962) of
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...
, Netherlands, is a historian and anthropologist specialising in the
oral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people wh ...
of
sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. These include West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the List of sov ...
, particularly Mali.
Jansen is the managing editor of ''
History in Africa
''History in Africa: A Journal of Debates, Methods, and Source Analysis'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the historiography and methodology of African history. It is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the A ...
'', the journal of the
African Studies Association. He is also a founding editor of ''Mande Worlds'', published by LIT Verlag, Munster/Hamburg, and ''
African Sources for African History'', published by
Brill
Brill may refer to:
Places
* Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands
* Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
* Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK
* Brill, Wisconsin, an un ...
, Leiden.
Jan Jansen
African Studies Centre Leiden, 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014
Archived here.
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Selected publications
*''L'Épopée de Sunjara, d'après Lansine Diabate de Kela''. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1995. (with E. Duintjer and B. Tamboura).
*''The Griot's Craft – An Essay on Oral Tradition and Diplomacy''. Műnster-Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2000.
*''Epopée Histoire Société – Le cas de Soundjata (Mali-Guinée)''. Paris: Karthala, 2001. rench edition of 1995 dissertation.
See also
* Oral history in modern Mali
References
External links
University of Leiden profile.
1962 births
20th-century Dutch historians
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Leiden University
Oral historians
Living people
21st-century Dutch historians
Historians of Africa
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