We spend our years as a tale that is told : oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
We spend our years as a tale that is told : oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , Witwatersrand University Press , J. Currey, 1994
- : cloth : Heinemann
- : pbk. : Heinemann
- : Witwatersrand University Press
- : cloth : J. Currey
- : pbk. : J. Currey
Available at 3 libraries
-
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
: pbk. : J. Currey388.487||Hof00025764
-
Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
: Witwatersrand University Press39/We 710587392
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-322) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
: pbk. : J. Currey ISBN 9780852556115
Table of Contents
Introduction - PART I: TELLING TALES - "Stories go Hand in Glove with Buliding a Man and a Woman": Household, Gender & Oral Storytelling - PART II: THE THREE Rs: READING, WRITING & REPRESSION - Jona & the Swallowing Mons ter: Orality & Literacy on a Berlin Mission Station - The Spoken Word and the Barbed Wire: Oral Chiefdoms versus Literate Bureaucracies - "Dikgoro tsa Kgale":/The Courtya rds of Long Ago: Forced Removals, Household Shape and the Performance of Oral History - PART III: TELLING HISTORICAL TALES - The Craft of Oral Historical Narrative: The Case of the Seige of Gwasa - The Meaning of Oral Historical Nar rative: The Case of the Seige of Gwasa - PART IV: THE THRE E Ms: MEMORY, MAUSCRIPT & MONUMENTS - Testimony into T ext: The Making of the Makapansgat Legend - History As Far ce?: Oral History as a Changing Phenomenon - Conclusion - Bibliography
- Volume
-
: Witwatersrand University Press ISBN 9781868142163
Description
This book brings together questions to do with oral history and narrative which have in the past often been kept apart. In doing so, it draws on a complex set of approaches from historical, anthropological and literary scholarship to throw new light on oral historical narrative, illustrating this with special reference to events and storytelling in a Northern Transvaal chiefdom. It looks to four major aspects: the events referred to by the informants, the present-day context in which these narratives occur, the conventions and forms which enable narration and an intervening period of changes and development for both the conditions and craft of telling and the meaning and form of the story itself.
by "Nielsen BookData"