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African oral traditions
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Bleek Family
Breaking String
Broken String
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cultural semiotics
Dorothea Bleek
Eland Bone
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ethnographic analysis
hunter gatherer societies
indigenous belief systems
Lloyd Archive
Megan Biesele
Rock Art Images
San Life
San mythology interpretation
San Myths
San Rock Art
San Rock Painting
San Shamans
Striped Mouse
Supernatural Potency
symbolic anthropology
Trance Dance
Trance Experience
Vice Versa
Wilhelm Bleek
Xam Informant
Xam Language
Xam Narrative
Xam People
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781629581545
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to create a larger theory of how myth is used in culture. He extracts their “nuggets,” the far-reaching but often unspoken words and concepts of language and understanding that are opaque to outsiders, to establish a more nuanced theory of the role of these myths in the thought-world and social circumstances of the San. The book -draws from the unique 19th century Bleek/Lloyd archives, more recent ethnographic work, and San rock art;-includes well-known San stories such as The Broken String, Mantis Dreams, and Creation of the Eland;-extrapolates from our understanding of San mythology into a larger model of how people create meaning from myth.
J. D. Lewis-Williams
