The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral TraditionA master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here. Accompanying the stories are Zenani’s detailed commentaries and analyses and Scheub’s striking photographs of her in performance. The combination of these historical and cultural observations with a richly symbolic collection of tales from a single traditional storyteller make The World and the Word a remarkable document. |
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... beer to the cattle kraal . When that task is complete , they take the beer that be- longs to the women to the women's kraal . The billycans are prepared by the unmarried women who bustle around . But no woman goes near the beer ; even ...
... beer, sitting according to the regions from which they have come. Each region dips a billycan, then puts it down; each dips a billycan, and so on. The beer that comes from the men is given to the unmarried women by the men in the ...
... beer was brewed . It was well brewed . Then it was removed from the fire . " What shall we do now ? There are no dishes for distributing it . " " What shall we do ? " " What shall we do now ? We must find some way to do it . " So said ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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