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Historiography

the stretch of time between remembered recent generations and origin accounts about which oral traditions say little, a gap that moves forward as generations pass.

In historiography, floating gap refers to the stretch of time between remembered recent generations and origin accounts about which oral traditions say little, a gap that moves forward as generations pass. This meaning comes from Vansina (1985) in Oral Tradition as History.[1]

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accounts1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct forward2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs oral tradition1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Vansina, J. (1985). Oral Tradition as History. University of Wisconsin Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.36106057

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