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Title:New directions in /Xam studies: some of the implications of Andrew Bank's 'Bushmen in a Victorian world: the remarkable story of the Bleek-Lloyd collection of Bushman folklore'
Author:Wessels, MichaelISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies
Volume:22
Issue:1
Pages:69-82
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:San
oral literature
About persons:Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1827-1875)ISNI
Lucy Catherine Lloyd (1834-1914)ISNI
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560040802166250
Abstract:Interest in the Bleek and Lloyd archive of /Xam materials in South Africa continues to grow each year. This has resulted in a proliferation of writing on the subject. Several major preoccupations can be discerned in this body of writing: these include the actual process of the collection of the materials and the relationships between the main players in the colonial context of Victorian Cape Town, the status of the materials as oral literature and their interpretation and analysis. In this article the author summarizes and assesses the implications of historian Andrew Bank's work 'Bushmen in a Victorian world: the remarkable story of the Bleek-Lloyd collection of Bushman folklore' (2006) for each of these areas of interest in the Bleek and Lloyd collection. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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