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"We spend our years as a tale that is told" : oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom / Isabel Hofmeyr.
- Title
- "We spend our years as a tale that is told" : oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom / Isabel Hofmeyr.
- Author
- Hofmeyr, Isabel
- Publication
- Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; London : J. Currey, 1994, c1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | AFR.SOUTH H 677 w | Off-site |
Details
- Series Statement
- Social history of Africa
- Uniform Title
- Social history of Africa
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. "Stories go Hand in Glove with Building a Man and a Woman": Household, Gender and Oral Storytelling -- 2. Jonah and the Swallowing Monster: Orality and Literacy on a Berlin Mission Station -- 3. The Spoken Word and the Barbed Wire: Oral Chiefdoms versus Literate Bureaucracies -- 4. "Dikgoro tsa Kgale"/The Courtyards of Long Ago: Forced Removals, Household Shape and the Performance of Oral History -- 5. The Craft of Oral Historical Narrative: The Case of the Siege of Gwasa -- 6. The Meaning of Oral Historical Narrative: The Case of the Siege of Gwasa -- 7. Testimony into Text: The Making of the Makapansgat Legend -- 8. History as Farce?: Oral History as a Changing Phenomenon.
- ISBN
- 0435080997
- 043508951X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^93033815^
- OCLC
- 29258724
- SCSB-10169332
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library