Customs and Beliefs of the |xam

ISBN-13: 9781776147762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 446 str.

Jeremy Hollmann

Opis

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.

Spis treści

• 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