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OverviewThe year 2011 marked the centenary of the publication of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd’s publication, Specimens of Bushman Folklore, a unique and globally important record of the language and poetry of a now-extinct language, that of the |xam Bushmen. To mark this anniversary, an edited volume is being published, named after //Kabbo, a prisoner released from the Breakwater Convict Station, who remained in Cape Town far from home and family and sacrificed the freedom of his final years to teach Bleek and Lloyd his language and make his stories known by way of books. The stories in the Bleek and Lloyd archive are now all that remains of the world view of the |xam. This book brings together a range of experts from a wide array of disciplines but all with a common theme, the Bleek and Lloyd archive, its progenitors and its legacy. It engages with issues of archival research and publication, with the difficulties of understanding oral literature through writing and with the active curation of archives. It comments on the past and present treatment of Bushmen and attempts to keep their culture alive, and it explores the world view of different groups of Bushmen through rock art, the paintings done for Bleek and Lloyd, their poetry and their language. Recommended for: Academics and students in the fields of ethnography, anthropology, archaeology, rock art, linguistics, historical studies, literary studies, curatorship. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janette Deacon , Pippa SkotnesPublisher: University of Cape Town Press Imprint: University of Cape Town Press Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781919895468ISBN 10: 1919895469 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 14 June 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA comprehensive overview of a rich vein of southern African history and culture, honoring the memory of the /Xam people and their 19th-century interlocutors. It also showcases the breadth and depth of 20th- and 21st-century South African scholarship in semiotics, folklore, museology, rock art research, and colonial historiography. --Professor Richard B. Lee, department of anthropology, University of Toronto Author InformationPippa Skotnes is Professor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has authored and co-authored several books on the writings of Bleek and Lloyd, most recently Landscape to literature (Axeage Press, 2011), and has curated several exhibitions around the theme of the San, among other subjects. She is a world-renowned artist in her own right. Janette Deacon is Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Unisa, and is a leading expert on rock art in South Africa. She has written over 130 academic papers, and six books. She manages the Rock Art Research Initiative, a programme of the Getty Conservation Institute, at Wits University, South Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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