In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several men and women from the northern Cape told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. These were the /xam (or Cape San or Bushmen) and theirs were narratives of the land, the rain, the history of the first people and the origin of the moon and stars. They told of the importance of the land and all its plants and animals, and the circumstances of their relocation 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 13000 pages that includes drawings, notebooks, maps and photographs. Now residing in three main institutions - the University of Cape Town, Iziko: The South African Museum and the National Library of South Africa - this archive is all that remains of the /xam language and the way of life that it described.
Hardcover with Dustcover-Illustrated endpapers, with 388 pages detailed text and supporting data and information with numerous illustrations.
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