The Archive To The Country The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Beek Pippa Skotnes

The Archive To The Country The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Beek 

Author: Pippa Skotnes  

Publisher: Jacan | Ohio University 

Edition: First  2007 (Hardcover, illustrated edition including CD)

ISBN: 978-1-7709-337-9 

Language: English

Condition: Good. Clean copy with no markings and tight binding   

Binding: Hardcover with dustcover  

Pages: 388. Print with images and CD.    

Additional Information

In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several xam men and women told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars at the Cape, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San (or Bushmen) were of the land, the rain, the history of the first people, the origin of the moon and stars. They told stories of their beliefs and their individual lives; how stories floated on the wind, and how they had come to Cape Town as prisoners of the British Crown. All these narratives were faithfully recorded and translated by Bleek and Lloyd, creating an archive of over 13 000 pages which includes drawings, notebooks, maps and photographs. Now residing in three main institutions - the University of Cape Town, the South African Museum and the National Library of South Africa - this archive has recently been entered into UNESCO's memory of the World Register.

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