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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... milk was poured into the bucket from a milk sack . The mouth of that milk sack was untied - milk was stored there in the skin of a beast , the skin having been sewn . The milk was poured into the milking bucket . The meat of the goat ...
... milk was performed . Now , the meat of this beast was finished , and the ceremony was performed . They brought a strap along with a bucket that had milk in it . A slice of meat was roasted , and brought . The strap was soaked in the milk ...
... milk . Milk was the only thing they had in their stomachs . It was as if one drank milk and nothing else : " No matter what one pours the milk over , it's as if one has eaten only milk . He tastes nothing else . " When the conversation ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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