Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San (The Khoisan Heritage Series) - Softcover

Hewitt, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868144704 ISBN 13: 9781868144709

Verlag: Wits University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive, arguably one of the most important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africas first people.

Initially appearing in a now rare 1986 edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral thesis on which the book is based became the catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the ’deep structures’ with resonances in other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators.
Hewitt’s text remains the only comprehensive and detailed study of /Xam narrative, and it has become itself the object of study by researchers and PhD candidates in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. This new edition at last makes Hewitt’s important work more widely available. It will be a welcome addition to the recently burgeoning literature on the place of the /Xam hunter-gatherers in the complex history of South African culture and society.

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Roger Hewitt is Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1868144704
• ISBN 13: 9781868144709
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
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