Dreaming the Karoo a people called the /Xam
"In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa. She had long been fascinated by the indigenous group called the /Xam, who were brutally forced from their ancestral lands by European settlers in the nineteenth century. Facing extinction and the death of their lang...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Jonathan Cape
2022
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Zusammenfassung: | "In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa. She had long been fascinated by the indigenous group called the /Xam, who were brutally forced from their ancestral lands by European settlers in the nineteenth century. Facing extinction and the death of their language, several of the /Xam people related their stories to a European philologist Wilhelm Bleek and his English sister-in-law, Lucy Lloyd. In 12,000 pages of notebooks, Lloyd and Bleek meticulously recorded their words - their dreams, memories, hopes, history and beliefs - creating an extraordinary archive of this now extinct people."-- |
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Beschreibung: | ix, 294 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9781787332188 978-1-78733-218-8 9781787332171 978-1-78733-217-1 |