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Dreaming the Karoo : a people called the /Xam
- Title
- Dreaming the Karoo : a people called the /Xam / Julia Blackburn.
- Author
- Blackburn, Julia
- Publication
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- ix, 294 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the /Xam. Throughout the nineteenth century the /Xam were persecuted and denied the right to live in their own territories. In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction, several /Xam individuals agreed to teach their intricate language to a German philologist and his indomitable English sister-in-law. The result was the Bleek-Lloyd Archive: 60,000 notebook pages in which their dreams, memories and beliefs, alongside the traumas of their more recent history, were meticulously recorded word for word. It is an extraordinary document which gives voice to a way of living in the world which we have all but lost. 'All things were once people', the /Xam said"--
- Alternative Title
- People called the /Xam
- Subject
- Blackburn, Julia > Travel > Northern Karoo
- Blackburn, Julia
- San (African people) > Northern Karoo > Social life and customs
- Indigenous peoples > Northern Karoo
- San (African people)
- Travel
- San (African people) > Social life and customs
- Indigenous peoples
- Northern Karoo (South Africa) > Description and travel
- South Africa > Northern Karoo
- South Africa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284).
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-331
- ISBN
- 1787332187
- 9781787332188
- 9781787332171
- 1787332179
- 9781473574045 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020479925
- OCLC
- 1259508589
- 1259508589
- Author
- Blackburn, Julia, author.
- Title
- Dreaming the Karoo : a people called the /Xam / Julia Blackburn.
- Publisher
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284).
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-331