"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom by Isabel Hofmeyr
"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom
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Isabel Hofmeyr
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"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom

Isabel Hofmeyr

328 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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Part One sets out to reconstruct, through interviews and ethnographic material, the form that an active storytelling tradition may have taken in Valtyn, a chiefdom in the Transvaal close to Potgietersrus. Part Two presents a series of case studies...

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