Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore

Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

Publisher: Daimon

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 385630603X

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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.

The Girl who Made Stars
The Girl who Made Stars

Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

Publisher: Daimon

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 3856305998

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These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.

Representing Bushmen
Representing Bushmen

Author: Shane Moran

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1580462944

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A detailed and compelling volume that contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship.

Bushmen in a Victorian World
Bushmen in a Victorian World

Author: Andrew Bank

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781770130913

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Wilhelm Bleek was fascinated by African languages and set out to make sense of a complex and alien Bushman tongue. At first Lucy Lloyd worked as his assistant, but soon proved to be so gifted a linguist and empathetic a listener that she created a monumental record of Bushman culture. Their informants were a colorful cast. The teenager, /A!kunta, taught Bleek and Lloyd their first Bushman words and sentences. The wise old man and masterful storyteller, //Kabbo, opened their eyes to a richly imaginative world of myth and legend. The young man, Dia!kwain, explained traditional beliefs about sorcery, while his friend #Kasin spoke of Bushman medicines and poisons. The treasures of Bushman culture were most fully revealed in conversations with a middle-aged man known as /Han=kass'o, who told of dances, songs and the meaning of images on rocks. The human histories and relationships involved in this unique collaboration across cultures are explored in full for the first time in this remarkable narrative.

Claim to the Country
Claim to the Country

Author: Pippa Skotnes

Publisher: Jacana Media

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1770093370

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Consists of all the notebook pages, watercolours and drawings that comprise the bulk of the Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek /Xam and !Kun (Bushmen) archive, with photographs, documents, letters and notes, as well as contextualizing essays and an index for the included narratives and contributors.