Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Specimens of Bushman Folklore, Collected by the Late W. H. I. Bleek, PH. D., and L. C. Lloyd
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE
Author: VariousPublisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 190725613X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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.
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Bushmen in a Victorian World
Author: Andrew BankPublisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 9781770130913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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.
The Golden Bough
Author: James George FrazerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Golden Bough
Author: James George FrazerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Mythology of All Races ...
Author: Louis Herbert GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Traditional Cosmology, vol. 5: Solar and Lunar Anomalies
Author: Marinus Anthony van der SluijsPublisher: All-Round Publications
ISBN: 1999438302
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This work, in 6 volumes, is a compendium of traditional cosmologies worldwide. The material includes the global mythology of creation and destruction, but also comprises information drawn from other areas of traditional knowledge, ritual, iconography, shamanism, costume, and dance. Relying on original sources, universal points of agreement are identified, often on counter-intuitive ideas. These suggest a single template, a blueprint for a universal mythology of origins with local variations. Volume 5 documents a large number of traditions concerning unusual and often undesirable properties and activities of the sun and moon. To name just a few examples, prominent beliefs were that the moon was originally brighter than the sun and that the earth once succumbed to the heat caused by the sun's former proximity, its greater strength, its failure to move or the appearance of multiple luminaries.