Bushman Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bushman Letters write by Michael Wessels. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Bushman Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Bleek and Lloyd Collection consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870s by a number of /Xam informants. It represents a rare and rich record of an indigenous language and culture that no longer exists, and has exerted a fascination for anthropologists and poets alike. Yet how does one begin reading texts that are at once so compromised and so unique? Bushman Letters is an important book for it examines not only the /Xam archive, but also the critical tradition that has grown up around it and the hermeneutic principles that inform that tradition. Wessels critiques these principles and offers alternative modes of reading. He shows the problems with the approaches employed by previous critics and, in the course of his own detailed and poetic readings of a number of narratives, suggests what their interpretations have left out. The book must be described as metacritical: it is criticism about the critical tradition that has grown up around the /Xam archive and in the fields of folklore and mythology more widely. Bushman Letters addresses a curiously neglected area in the burgeoning literature on the Bleek and Lloyd Collection: the texts themselves. In doing so, the book makes a substantial contribution to the study of oral narratives in general and to the theoretical discourse that informs such studies.
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specimens of Bushmen Folklore write by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek. This book was released on 2001. Specimens of Bushmen Folklore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known people. As Megan Biesele writes in her Foreword: The fact that a family of trained linguists and their associates sat down between 1870 and 1884 with a group of /Xam people who had been temporarily sprung free of imprisonment in Cape Town's Breakwater Prison has immense potential consequences. San people today, like indigenous peoples all over the world, are quietly organizing educational futures for themselves which will make fine use of this record of the intellectual history of their culture. This edition reproduces the English text of the 1911 edition and is richly illustrated with photographs.
SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE
SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE write by Various. This book was released on 2009. SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Specimens of Bushman Folk-lore was published by Dr. W.H.I. Bleek only after he'd overcome many great difficulties (and great they were in late 1800s South Africa). So complete is this volume that Dr. Bleek even provides explanations on how to make the many click sounds that are endemic to the Bushman language. Good luck wrapping your tongue around them! This 260 page volume contains 84 stories about Bushman myths and legends, including interpretations of the natural world, animal fables, the story of the first man, and customs, superstitions, and more. There are stories about girls and frogs, hyenas that seek revenge, the wind, and the making of arrows. There are also stories about the origin of the stars Sirius and Canopus, the treatment of bones, prayers to the moon, and a man who mistakenly ordered his wife to cut off his ears. Of special interest is the story of one Bushman's first ride on the train from Mowbray to Cape Town, which describes his treatment at the hands of the local police and the imposition of the white man's laws upon him and his people. The old adage "Everything changes, everything stays the same," comes to mind. So curl up with this treasure of ancient Africa, this documentation of a changing world, and engross yourself in a culture that has no place for MP3 players, video games, or television. A percentage of every book sold will help fund the education of an underprivileged person in South Africa. SPECIAL NOTE: Rock art and archaeological evidence indicates that the San Bushmen once occupied countries as far north as Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, with some evidence of occupation in Kenya. Over time, environmental conditions and the negroid races pushed the Bushmen further and further south-today, they can now only be found in the countries of Southern Africa. Even now, the Bushmen's traditional way of life is further threatened by government regulations and policies that seek to restrict their nomadic tradition and "encourage" them to assume a more pastoral lifestyle.
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
Specimens of Bushman Folklore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specimens of Bushman Folklore write by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek. This book was released on 1911. Specimens of Bushman Folklore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Representing Bushmen
Representing Bushmen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing Bushmen write by Shane Moran. This book was released on 2009. Representing Bushmen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed and compelling volume that contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship.
