Claim to the Country The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd

Name: Claim to the Country The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
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ISBN: 9780821417782

ISBN-10: 0821417789

ISBN-13: 9780821417782

Edition: N/A

Authors: Pippa Skotnes

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In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several San men and women told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars at the Cape, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San (or Bushmen) were of the land, the rain, the history of the first people, and the origin of the moon and stars. These narratives were faithfully recorded and translated by Bleek and Lloyd, creating an archive of more than 13,000 pages including drawings, notebooks, maps, and photographs. Now residing in three main institutions-the University of Cape Town, the South African Museum, and the National Library of South Africa-this archive has recently been entered into…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 5.082
Language: English



The legacy of Bleek and Lloyd


Ilkabbo's sentence



'Civilising' the San : the first mission to the Cape San, 1791-1806



Bushman raiders revisited



Ikhwa-ka Hhouiten Hhouiten : 'the rush of the storm' : the linguistic death of xam



Images, words and worlds : the xam testimonies and the rock arts of the Southern San



Reflections on narrative



Variations on four xam and !kun themes



Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and Dorothea Bleek : a personal tribute



Makers of the archive


Dreams of their country : uma, Tamme, nanni and Da


Lucy's loss and other deaths


The hunting ground's doings : xam narratives of hunting, animals and the veld



By way of words : selections from the xam dictionary of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd


Claim to the country : an anthem