Specimens of Bushmen folklore / collected by Wilhelm H.I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bleek, W. H. I. (Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel), 1827-1875.

Contributor:

Lloyd, Lucy, 1834-1914.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Nilo-Saharan (Other)

Subjects (All):

San (African people).

Folklore--South Africa.

Folklore.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xl, 468 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Originally published under title : Specimens of Bushman folklore

Place of Publication:

Einsiedeln [Switzerland] : Daimon, [2001]

Language Note:

Bushman text with facing English translation.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

385630603X

OCLC:

48577374