5 volumes: 581 + 334 + 370 + 445 + 446 pages, navy blue cloth binding titled gilt on the spines, volume 4 has a slight tear at the top of its dust jacket, otherwise very good copies in the dust jackets.
James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. In meticulously recorded conversations with some 200 interlocutors, the great majority of them Africans, he assembled a vast and unique collection of notes on the history and customs of the Zulu and other peoples of what is now the KwaZulu-Natal region.
The testimonies published in the successive volumes of The James Stuart Archive represent edited, annotated and (where the original appears in Zulu) translated renderings of Stuart’s notes and transcriptions. The testimonies that he recorded piecemeal have been arranged by the editors under the names of the interlocutors from whom they were obtained, and have been published in alphabetical name-order.
The first five volumes of The James Stuart Archive were published successively in 1976, 1979, 1982, 1986 and 2001. Volume 6 of this series published in 2014 is not included with this set.
The editors : Colin de B. Webb was Vice-Principal of the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and John Wright is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
http://ukznpress.bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/07/01/
- Overall Condition: Very good
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