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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... doctor cannot divine ; all he can do is examine . And there are various kinds of such doctors . There is another kind of doctor who , after he has examined his patient , draws out with his mouth the thing that is inside the patient ...
... doctor , indicated that I was under treatment . Those beads were put around my neck . Time passed . Then the beads were put on my calves . It became clear that , well , many people were coming here because they knew me and were ...
... doctor . I was a doctor now . I put on my official doctor's uniform , the skin skirts that I was able to obtain only after journeying far from home - various skins of animals went into making the skirt , genets , animals from a far off ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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