A complete set of six volumes of The James Stuart Archive published successively from 1976 to 2014. It features documents compiled from material in the James Stuart Collection of the Killie Campbell Africana Library in Durban.
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.
6 volumes: 381 + 334 + 370 + 445 + 446 + 448 pages. Navy blue hardcover bindings with silver titles on spines. Pictorial dust jackets.
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