The Discursive Character of the /Xam Texts
A Consideration of the /Xam “Story of the Girl of the Early Race, Who Made Stars”
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8935060 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael Wessels (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2007 |
| Volumen | 118 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 307-324 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2007-11-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00155870701621806 |
| OpenAlex | W1541453095 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 11 |
| Referencias citadas | 11 |
This paper discusses a single /Xam narrative from the nineteenth-century Bleek and Lloyd archive of Southern African Bushman materials. [1] It delivers a critique of functionalist and structuralist approaches to the materials, as well as of the tendency to characterise the narratives that concern the sun, moon and stars as chiefly aetiological. The paper aims to situate the narrative within a wider /Xam discursive field and to demonstrate something of its protean multivocity. While the paper concentrates on the /Xam materials, it also seeks to address questions that relate to the interpretation of folklore and oral literature in general
Art · Character (mathematics · Folklore · Girl · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · South African History and Culture
Text or Presence
Remembering Folktales
Negotiating Contemporary Indigeneity
Phenomenological effects of brain function lateralisation contribute to Animism’s prevailing sensory metaphor
A Beacon of Home
Foraging, Talking, and Tricksters
Broken strings
The /Xam Narratives
He Who is a Devourer of Things’
The Stars Know Where He Is’
An unsettled theory of mind
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
Women like meat
Purity and Danger
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
The Order of Things
Reflections on the first bushman's path
Meanings, Models and Minds
The Myth of Ritual Origins? Ethnography, Mythology and Interpretation of San Rock Art
The Water Bull of the /Xam
Purity and Danger
| Obras citantes distintas | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,61 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 11 |