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Article: THE SEED IS MINE: THE LIFE OF KAS MAINE, A SOUTH AFRICAN SHARECROPPER, 1894-1985.
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- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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THE SEED IS MINE: THE LIFE OF KAS MAINE, A SOUTH AFRICAN SHARECROPPER, 1894-1985. By Charles Van Onselen. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. 649 pp. Hardbound, $55.00; Softbound, $16.00.
Oral sources have been a mainstay of African history since the 1960s. Jan Vansina and others have long argued for the utility of oral traditions in constructing a precolonial past. More recent concerns with Gramscian social consciousness have led historians to conduct oral interviews in order to find linkages between economy, political ideologies, and society. Overall, oral testimony in its various forms has proven valuable to Africanists seeking to construct a counternarrative to ...