general books
Khoisan/ Bushman studies
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Bank (A,)
BUSHMEN IN A VICTORIAN WORLD,
the remarkable story of the Bleek-Lloyd Collection of Bushman folklore
422 pp., maps, illus., paperback,
Cape Town,
2006.
R185
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Tells the story of the collaboration between Dr Wilhelm Bleek and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd and their five Bushmen informants, /A!kunta, //Kabbo, Dia!kwain, #Kasin and /Han=kass'o, who worked together to record the language and culture of the /Xam Bushmen in the 1870s.
Andrew Bank lectures in the History Department at the Univerity of the Western Cape.
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Bennun (N.)
THE BROKEN STRING,
the last words of an extinct people
419 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w.,
London,
2004.
R295
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Neil Bennun draws on the notebooks of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd to tell the story of the bushmen and to explore their rock art.
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Bleek (W.H.I.) & Lloyd (L.C.) comp.
SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE,
468 pp., illus., hardback, d.w.,
Facsimile reprint, Einsiedeln,
(1911) 2001.
R550
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Foreword by Megan Biesele.
A facsimile reprint of Bushmen tales collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd originally published in 1911, with the /Xam text and English translations on facing pages.
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Boden (G.) comp. & ed.
!QAMTEE /AA =XANYA,
"The Book of Traditions", histories, texts and illustrations from the !Xoon and 'N/ohan people of Namibia
108 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback,
Basel,
2007.
R195
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A collection of oral history accounts from the Taa-speaking people living in Namibia. This booklet is a product of research on the language, cultural practices and oral histories of Namibian Taa-speakers undertaken by the Volkswagen Foundation's initiative "Documentation of Endangered Languages".
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Haacke (W.H.G.)
THE TONOLOGY OF KHOEKHOE (NAMA/ DAMARA),
233 pp., paperback,
Cologne,
1999.
R230
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A tonological analysis of the Khoekhoe language.
