The Abundant Herds - Margeurite Poland

Published by FERNWOOD PRESS; 2017
Hardcover with dustjacket
Quarto square
144 pages detailed text, and fully illustrated through-out.
This is a book about human creativity, not the creativity of the plastic arts, or of music, but rather that of a poet, the wordsmith.
This unique book gives an overview of the history of Nguni cattle and their economic, social, political and spirtual importance to the Zulu people, both past and present.
With oil and watercolour paintings, and sepia drawings by internationally acclaimed artist, Leigh Voigt,
it examines the vital role played by cattle and cattle related imagery in the oral tradition of the Zulu people.
Cattle have become a part of the spiritual and aesthetic lives of the people, which has given rise to a poetic and complex naming practice.
The fine and subtle nuance of the Zulu language captures the delicate interrelationship between cattle terminology and the natural world, where the colour and pattern of a hide, or the shape of a pair of horns, is metaphorically linked to images in nature. Illustrated ends. 
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