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Extent

857 digital objects.

Description

Images, video and audio recordings, and images from professor of African and Comparative Literature Robert Cancel's research in Zambia and other regions of Africa. Footage documents oral histories and folk tales of a culture rich in oral traditions. Cancel's research is world renowned and the unique documentation that this research provides is highly valuable to multiple disciplines. Descriptions of the collection items was provided by Professor Robert Cancel.

Creation Date

• Between 1976 and 1997

Creator

• Cancel, Robert

Geographics

• South Africa
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Topics

• Children
• Oral tradition
• Portraits
• Storytelling
• Tabwa culture
• Villages
• Zambian culture

Formats

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• image
• sound recording
• video