Women Like Meat: The Folklore and Foraging Idealogy of the Kalahair Ju/'Hoan

Women Like Meat: The Folklore and Foraging Ideology of the Kalahari Ju/'Hoan

Politics & Social Sciences

Biesele, Megan

Social Sciences

Witwatersrand Univ Pr

Zulu Proverbs

Nyembezi, C. L. S.

Philosophy

Tramp Royal

When an elderly itinerant trader from a doss house in Johannesburg turned up on the veranda of novelist Ethelreda Lewis's suburban home, she was so enthralled by his reminiscences that she turned them into a biographical narrative which became the world bestseller for 1927. Popular though the book was, it did not take long before the veracity of Lewis's tale about Trader Horn was being called into question by many who believed the work was fiction, or a hoax. In "Tramp Royal", by means of a piece of biographical detective work, Tim Couzens picks up the fading trail of Aloysius Smith, alias Trader Horn, from Lancashire in the 1860s, through the frontiers of Africa, Buffalo Bill's America, Cockney London in the 1890s, gunrunning in Madagascar, the Boer War in South Africa to the doss house in Johannesburg. It is the tale of an unquenchable free spirit forever in search of adventure and Couzens tells it with a verve and enjoyment entirely appropriate to the larger-than-life character he celebrates.

Tramp Royal: The True Story of Trader Horn

History

Couzens, Tim

Africa

Presents results of a study of four protohistoric populations in the contact area of the middle Orange River. The book concludes that genetic intermixture may be directed by differences in social status, implying that the myth of an unchanging link between culture and biology is untenable.

The Skeletons of Contact: Study of Protohistoric Burials from the Lower Orange River Valley, South Africa

MORRIS, Alan

South Africa has an archaeological wealth that stretches back over two million years of human pre-history. Part of that wealth is the hard evidence of the people themselves in the form of human skeletal remains. Also present in large numbers are the skeletal remains of the Holocene ancestors of the living human populations of southern Africa. The emphasis of scholarly research in this field has shifted substantially since the 1920s and 1930s when the finds were first made and documented, through the typological classifications of the 1940s which focused largely on the racial classification of specimens. Recent studies focus more narrowly on specific situations in place and time and attempt to draw together biological, archaeological and behavioural data to form a picture of the lifestyles and health of past populations. The common need of recent research has been for detailed documentation of the archaeological context and precise dating of the skeletons. Morris's comprehensive catalogue, the first to focus exclusively on South Africa, makes this data available to researchers in an accessible form, and should prove an invaluable reference work for scholars of anthropology and archaeology.

A Master Catalogue: Holocene Human Skeletons from South Africa

Morris, A. G.

Before he died in Britain in 1977, H.M. Basner, lawyer, Communist Party member, politician and, briefly, Native Representative in the South African Senate, had written a substantial part of his autobiography. His writings covered the period from his birth in Latvia to South Africa, the United States, back to South Africa, and on to pre-independence Tanzania and post-independence Ghana. On his death, his widow Miriam used this record as the basis of her account of his life. The result is an eccentric and anecdotal portrayal of one of South Africa's more colourful political characters. The social and political issues of the period between 1927 and 1946 are treated in depth and the book offers insights into the personalities of many of the political figures of the time. In particular it is a source of information relating to the election of the first Native Representatives to the House of Assembly and the Senate.

Am I an African?: The Political Memoirs of H.m.basner

Basner, Miriam

When an elderly itinerant trader from a doss house in Johannesburg turned up on the veranda of novelist Ethelreda Lewis's suburban home, she was so enthralled by his reminiscences that she turned them into a biographical narrative which became the world bestseller for 1927. Popular though the book was, it did not take long before the veracity of Lewis's tale about Trader Horn was being called into question by many who believed the work was fiction, or a hoax. Couzens picks up the fading trail of Aloysius Smith, alias Trader Horn, from Lancashire in the 1860s, through the frontiers of Africa, Buffalo Bill's America, Cockney London in the 1890s, gunrunning in Madagascar, the Boer War in South Africa to the doss house in Johannesburg. It is the tale of an unquenchable free spirit forever in search of adventure and Couzens tells it with a verve and enjoyment entirely appropriate to the larger-than-life character he celebrates.

This collection of six plays by one of South Africa's leading playwright/actors features works written between 1984 and 1993. Slabolepszy has won numerous awards in South Africa and abroad both for his plays and for his performances in them. He aims to capture the essence of the personality and speech patterns of his protagonists in accessible language which is often dramatic, frequently funny, sometimes tragic and always entertaining. The works included in this book are "Under the Oaks" (1984), "Over the Hill" (1985), "Travelling Shots" (1988), "Smallholding" (1989), "The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie" (1992) and "Mooi Street Moves" (1993). "Elvis" won Slabolepszy the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award for Play of the Year and, together with "Mooi Street Moves", gained him the Vita Playwright of the Year Award. The collection is introduced by Robert Greig, a leading South African drama critic.

Mooni Street and Other Moves

Slabolepszy, Paul

Literature & Fiction

The work of David Lewis-Williams, as it has been developed through the Rock Art Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, has been seminal in providing a paradigm which places the problems of the interpretation of South African rock art in an entirely new light. This volume brings together the work of a number of scholars in the field of rock art studies who engage the so-called "trance hypothesis" in terms of their own empirical data and theoretical interests. The consensus is that the hypothesis is basically correct, but questions are raised about points of detail and the applicability of the hypothesis to all paintings and engravings. Many of the chapters engage in wider issues that impinge on other disciplines, such as linguistics and folklore studies, and demonstrate the relationship between them and the art. The editors give an overview of the development of rock art studies which aims to provide a contribution to the epistomological problems of this type of research, showing how the approach has been modified in the light of criticisms and new insights.

Contested Images

Dowson, Thomas

Lewis-Williams, David

Snakes and Crocodiles is the result of fifteen years of fieldwork and research, and is both the first to cover this entire area and the first to explore the symbolism of the ruins. Using contemporary and 16th century ethnographic data, Tom Huffman explains the layouts of the sites, the structuring of specific units, and the symbolism built into individual walls.The book is beautifully illustrated throughout, with line drawings, photographs, and maps. Although primarily of interest to professionals, the accessible style and presentation will also attract interested general readers.

Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe

Huffman, Thomas N.

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