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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... women . " When she said , " the young women , " she meant me together with the young women who were my companions , according to Xhosa custom . One of the young women was my sister , the other was from my village . It was that way with ...
... women go to the house ! ” So the women go into the house . When the women have gone in , the unmarried women go into the house where they sleep - the same house occupied by the men , the house from which the meat has come . The girls ...
... women by the men in the appropriate vessel . The women likewise dip beer from their apportioned vessel and send it to those unmarried women . The meat is handled in the same way when it has been taken from the fire ; the men give it to ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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