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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... customs began to diverge because of the divisions . Now , about the establishment of custom . Two things brought custom into being : first , the luxury of having sufficient goods to be able to dream ; and second , a reverence for and ...
... custom . He is compared unfavorably to the person who fulfills the custom without being put under any pressure , doing it because he wants to . Even a per- son who has nothing seeks to fulfill this custom , until it develops into a ...
... custom . No one denies it ; we want to fulfill the custom . The money - of - the - urination won't be difficult to produce . But according to the traditions of the royal residence where we've come from , at the home of this king's ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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