Bushman Letters

Author : Michael Wessels
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868146222

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Bushman Letters by Michael Wessels Pdf

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 : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek,Lucy Lloyd
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9783856306038

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Specimens of Bushmen Folklore by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek,Lucy Lloyd Pdf

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 : Shane Moran
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580462945

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Representing Bushmen by Shane Moran Pdf

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

Author : William Mark Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : OXFORD:N10589959

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History of the First Bushmen's Club in the Australian Colonies, Established at Adelaide, South Australia by William Mark Hugo Pdf

Author : Paul John Myburgh
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143529910

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The Bushman Winter has Come by Paul John Myburgh Pdf

This is a true story of exodus, the inevitable journey of the last of the First People, as they leave the Great Sand Face and head for the modern world and cultural oblivion. Paul John Myburgh spent seven years with the 'People of the Great Sand Face', a group of /Gwikwe Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert. They were years of physical and spiritual immersion into a way of life of which only an echo remains in living memory. But all does not end there. In The Bushman Winter Has Come, the author imagines a continuing journey towards a place where we may, once again, know who we are in the context of our life on this earth ... towards a time when we may answer the /Gwikwe's morning greeting, Tsamkwa/tge? (Are your eyes nicely open?) with a confident Yes.

Author : Michael Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000431797

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On Literary Attachment in South Africa by Michael Chapman Pdf

This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues – the usual approach to literature from South Africa – the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature – hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach – raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a "born free" novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event – the statue of Rhodes must fall – through a literary sensibility? Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the "limits of critique". Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418263

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Bushmen by Alan Barnard Pdf

A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.

Author : Pippa Skotnes,Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781770093379

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Claim to the Country by Pippa Skotnes,Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek Pdf

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.

Author : Dold,Tony Dold,Tony,Jean Kelly
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781920033750

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Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread by Dold,Tony Dold,Tony,Jean Kelly Pdf

Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925 presents the record of a remarkable overland journey documented by the botanist Mary Agard Pocock and illustrated, in colour, with her photographs, sketches and paintings of southern Angola, its people and its plants. The purpose of the six-month-long expedition, by boat, on foot and by machila, was primarily for the renowned ethnologist Dorothea Bleek to collect ethnographic information of the last remaining Bushmen of the region. Besides her role as aide-de-camp, Mary Pocock's intention was to study the flora. She collected almost 1000 plant specimens from this virtually unexplored region, several of which proved to be new to science. A talented artist and photographer, Pocock also described, painted and photographed Bushmen in their villages. These are unique and rare representations of daily activities such as spinning cotton, preparing food, forging metal, playing musical instruments and dancing. Her meticulous daily travel account, glass plate slides, negatives, sketches and paintings have now been rescued from oblivion and collated, edited and presented here for the first time. Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread will appeal to those interested in Bushmen ethnology, African botany, early 20th century African travel, and not least the significance of gender in scientific exploration of that era.

Author : Nicola Bidwell,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Publisher : Informing Science
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Communication in community development
ISBN : 9781932886993

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At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design by Nicola Bidwell,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus Pdf

There is intensified interest in designing information and communication technologies (ICTs) that respond to ways of doing, knowing, and saying that differ from those that dominate in producing ICTs and, in particular, to ‘traditional’ or ‘indigenous’ knowledges. ICT endeavours for indigenous or traditional knowledges (ITK) vary. Some aim to extend ITK digitally and others use ICTs to improve the economic and/or political situation of marginalised groups. This book presents themes that arise in designing to respond to ITK in different cultural, social, physical, and historical contexts.

Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek,Lucy Lloyd,George McCall Theal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Folklore
ISBN : NYPL:33433061821645

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Specimens of Bushman Folklore by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek,Lucy Lloyd,George McCall Theal Pdf

Author : Annette Hoffman
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927404

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Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa by Annette Hoffman Pdf

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these recordings reverberate with the polyphonic echoes of colonial knowledge production, to date, acoustic collections have rarely been consulted as sources of colonial history. In this book Anette Hoffmann engages with a Southern African audio-visual collection, which is located in five different institutions across Vienna, Austria. Several recordings collected by the anthropologist Rudolf Pch in August 1908 have been retranslated for this book. These translations provide new insights into Pchs collecting expedition to the Kalahari. Pchs narrative of his heroic journey is called into question by the Naro speakers comments, which address colonial violence and criticise the research practices of the anthropologist. By attending to the spoken texts on the recordings and reconnecting them to photographs, ethnographic objects, archival documentation and Pchs travelogue, Hoffmann offers a different reading of this research trip into a war zone.triesries.

Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015031992723

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Specimens of Bushman Folklore, Collected by the Late W. H. I. Bleek, PH. D., and L. C. Lloyd by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek Pdf

Author : John Willis
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772824377

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More than words by John Willis Pdf

More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on post-related topics. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, these new essays address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as infrastructure, technology, nation-building and interpersonal communications.

Author : Keyan Tomaselli,Michael Wessels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317483274

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San Representation by Keyan Tomaselli,Michael Wessels Pdf

The San or Bushmen of southern Africa have exerted a fascination over generations of writers and scholars, from novelists and anarchists to ethnologists and geneticists, and also occupy a special place in the popular imagination as the First People and the contemporary remnant of spiritual and natural man. The ways in which particular groups of people from southern Africa have been traditionally categorised and positioned as objects of scrutiny by a range of academic disciplines is increasingly being contested and questioned. There is a growing awareness of the cultural, economic and genetic entanglement of the peoples of the region. This book examines how San and Khoe people are represented, by others, as well as by those who identify as San or Khoe. The book interrogates the ways in which disciplines, through their methodologies and ways of authorising knowledge, not only "discover" or "reveal" knowledge but produce it in ways that involve complex and often ambiguous relationships with power structures and forms of intellectual, symbolic and cultural capital. One major trend that emerges is that the San and Khoe can no longer be seen as people of the past but have to be acknowledged as contemporary and socially situated individuals and communities who are increasingly contesting the representations which others have imposed on them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies.