Customs and Beliefs of the |xam

Jeremy Hollmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

446 Seiten

2022
Wits University Press (Verlag)
9781776147762 (ISBN)

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This revised resource based on articles published in the 1930s by Dorothea Bleek, incorporates and contextualises /Xam beliefs and key narratives of the /Xam teachers.

Based on the articles published in the 1930s by Dorothea Bleek in the journal Bantu Studies, this revised and expanded edition brings together a wide range of xam beliefs and key narratives as told to Bleek and Lloyd by xam teachers.

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
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 276 mm
Gewicht	1551 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781776147762 / 9781776147762
Zustand	Neuware