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Author : Mathias Georg Guenther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bushman Folktales written by Mathias Georg Guenther and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190725613X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jiro Tanaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876843489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Bushman Folktales written by Jiro Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, tales tell of animals who talk to each other, deceive each other and easily transform themselves into human beings. The author, who has followed the lives of the Bushmen of the Kalahari for more than half a century, has recorded their folktales and transcribed them as they were told. The twenty-nine stories presented here tell of the antics of creation god Piisi-|uagu, capture the characteristics of the flora and fauna that are central to the hunter-gatherers' way of life and feature the terrifying and deadly deeds of macabre monsters and marauders. Prepare yourself for a fascinating journey into the cosmos of the Bushmen.
Author : Gregory McNamee
Publisher : Daimon
ISBN 13 : 3856309373
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Girl Who Made Stars and Other Bushman Stories written by Gregory McNamee and published by Daimon. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : J. D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315423758
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Myth and Meaning written by J. D. Lewis-Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to create a larger theory of how myth is used in culture. He extracts their “nuggets,” the far-reaching but often unspoken words and concepts of language and understanding that are opaque to outsiders, to establish a more nuanced theory of the role of these myths in the thought-world and social circumstances of the San. The book -draws from the unique 19th century Bleek/Lloyd archives, more recent ethnographic work, and San rock art;-includes well-known San stories such as The Broken String, Mantis Dreams, and Creation of the Eland;-extrapolates from our understanding of San mythology into a larger model of how people create meaning from myth.
Author : Michael Wessels
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868146227
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Bushman Letters written by Michael Wessels and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Andrew Bank
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781770130913
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Bushmen in a Victorian World written by Andrew Bank and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Anon E Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book TWO BUSHMEN LEGENDS - Tales from the bushmen of Nambia written by Anon E Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 46 In Issue 46 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates two legends from the bushmen of the Namib Desert. The stories are ?How the Coming of a Snake Announces a Death in the Family? and ?The Resurrection of the Ostrich.? Both legends are a mix of Bushmen folklore and customs and show how intertwined everyday life in the Namib is with the bush-lore by which the bushmen live. This issue also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.
Author : J. D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315423766
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Myth and Meaning written by J. D. Lewis-Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.D. Lewis-Williams is professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He founded and was former director of the highly-regarded Rock Art Research Institute at Wits University. He is internationally known for his ground-breaking work on the art and beliefs of the southern African San, the Upper Palaeolithic art and Neolithic monuments of western Europe, ancient shamanism, and the neuropsychology of religious experiences. Author of over 120 articles and nineteen books on these topics, he has been honored by the American Historical Association, the Societ.
Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Specimens of Bushman Folklore written by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418260
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Bushmen written by Alan Barnard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Brief Account of Bushman Folk-lore and Other Texts written by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher : Daimon
ISBN 13 : 385630603X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Specimens of Bushmen Folklore written by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek and published by Daimon. This book was released on 2001 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Wilhelm H. I. Bleek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780404160562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Specimens of Bushman Folklore written by Wilhelm H. I. Bleek and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000190110
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Anthropology and the Bushman written by Alan Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bushman' is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of that image is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society, of the ideas and values of ethnographers who have worked with Bushman peoples, and those of other anthropologists who use this work. Anthropology and the Bushman covers early travellers and settlers, classic nineteenth and twentieth-century ethnographers, North American and Japanese ecological traditions, the approaches of African ethnographers, and recent work on advocacy and social development. It reveals the impact of Bushman studies on anthropology and on the public. The book highlights how Bushman or San ethnography has contributed to anthropological controversy, for example in the debates on the degree of incorporation of San society within the wider political economy, and on the validity of the case for 'indigenous rights' as a special kind of human rights. Examining the changing image of the Bushman, Barnard provides a new contribution to an established anthropology debate.
Author : Wilhelm Bleek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532810626
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Specimens of Bushman Folklore written by Wilhelm Bleek and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1911, Specimens of Bushman Folklore offers an interesting glimpse into folk tales, personal accounts and songs of the bushmen. Stories such as The Man Who Found A Lion In A Cave, The Leopard And The Jackal, The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars and The Man Who Ordered His Wife To Cut Off His Ears. Very heavy with footnotes.
Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Specimens of Bushman Folklore, Collected by the Late W. H. I. Bleek, PH. D., and L. C. Lloyd written by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
