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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... slaughtered for the initiate . The beast of the ritual- entry - into - the - initiation - house was slaughtered ; then the beast of the sec- ond stage of the ceremony , the wormwood stage , was killed . The mothers of the women were ...
... slaughtered . I want its liver now ! " " All right . If you say so , then it'll have to be slaughtered . " When the hog heard that it was to be slaughtered , it went to an ox . It said to a heifer , " Swallow this child ! I've learned ...
... slaughtered for someone , he must be the first to eat of the meat , according to Xhosa custom . When the others are eating the meat , the person for whom the beast was slaughtered should already have tasted it . He should not be tasting ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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