Customs and Beliefs of the |xam
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-776-2 (ISBN)
Dorothea Bleek’s selection of |xam narratives from the well-known Bleek and Lloyd Collection were originally published in the journal Bantu Studies during the 1930s. Decades later, Jeremy Hollmann collated and edited these extracts, adding notes on each of the narratives as well as Dorothea Bleek’s ‘sketch ‘of |xam grammar. The first edition of his book was published in 2004.
This substantially revised second edition integrates new scholarship on the Bleek and Lloyd archive, and restores previously omitted material. The introduction to each narrative is expanded to contextualise it within the archive as a whole and, where relevant, reference it to the Notebook of which it is a part. The texts are critically reassessed, with additional notes and commentaries, particularly on English translations of the |xam language.
Customs and Beliefs of the |xam, second edition, is an in-depth, authoritative resource that will be invaluable to scholars, heritage workers and activists.
Jeremy Hollmann is is a rock art specialist and an honorary research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has worked extensively with the Bleek and Lloyd Collection over the past 20 years, using the /Xam testimony as an inspiration and source for exploring the meanings of southern African rock art.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction to the second edition
Contributors to Customs and Beliefs of the |xam
|xam speech
People in the notebooks
PART 1 BABOONS
The baboon narratives
Baboons and the Early Race
Special powers of baboons
Respecting baboons
Narratives
PART 2 THE LION
Lions are people too
The extraordinary powers of lions
Respect for lions
Lions and sorcery
Narratives
PART 3 GAME ANIMALS
Respecting the game
The potency of game animals
Narratives
PART 4 OMENS, WINDMAKING, CLOUDS
Relationships with the wind
Winking
The wind
Narratives
PART 5 RAIN
ǃkhwɑː and the rain
The riders of the rain
ǃkhwɑː and women
Respecting the rain
Taking care of the community
Narratives
PART 6 RAINMAKING
Fetching the rain
Hilltops: places of power
Angry rainmakers
Narratives
PART 7 SORCERORS
The anatomy of sorcery
Relations between ǃgiːtǝn and ordinary people
The ǀnu ǃkˀe, the spirit people
Narratives
PART 8 MORE ABOUT SORCERORS AND CHARMS
The breaking of the string
The old woman and the chameleon
Vegetable medicines and charms
Narratives
PART 9 SPECIAL SPEECH OF ANIMALS AND MOON
The Early Race
Storytelling
Narratives
APPENDIX 1: DOROTHEA F. BLEEK’S BUSHMAN GRAMMAR
Introduction by Tom Güldemann
ǀxam Bushman Grammar by Dorothea Bleek
APPENDIX 2: SUMMARY OF THE NARRATIVES
REFERENCES
INDEX
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 203 x 276 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77614-776-6 / 1776147766 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77614-776-2 / 9781776147762 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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