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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... house , they'll all be your children . Even if the supporting house produces a boy , he will become the junior brother of that one who is being grafted on to you - you having no male child . That one of the right - hand house is still ...
... house , the new bride , the one who is the support- ing house . Make an arrangement with her because she has given ... right - hand house is indeed an independent section . It has now become clear what is to be : the right - hand will ...
... right , my child , we must leave that subject . We don't know those things . But we want to speak of our Xhosa ... hand house . After the wife of the right - hand house , he marries an iqadi of the great house . After the iqadi of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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