Structure, meaning & ritual in the narratives of the southern San /
Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San 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 Africa's '...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2008.
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Édition: | 2nd ed. |
Collection: | Khoisan heritage series.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Ethnographic background
- Introduction to the narratives: their context, performance and scope
- Legends and stories of!Khwa
- Sidereal narratives: the story of the Dawn's Heart and his wife the Lynx
- Animal narratives
- /Kaggen in belief and ritual
- The /Kaggen narratives: (1): characters and content
- The /Kaggen narratives (2): sequence and structure
- /Kaggen in belief, ritual and narrative: a synthesis
- Two /Kaggen narratives: compositional variations
- The verbal surface: a note on the narrators.