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Sketches of Kafir life. With pref. by Alan G. S. Gibson.
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- New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
- 1969-1905
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 266-C (Callaway, G. Sketches of Kafir life. Reprint) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Townsmen or tribesmen; conservatism and the process of urbanization in a South African city ... with contributions by Iona Mayer.2nd ed.
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- Cape Town, New York, Oxford University Press, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
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The Ciskei - a Bantu homeland; a general survey.
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- Fort Hare, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 73-465 Offsite The magic world of the Xhosa.
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- London, Collins, [1972, c1970]
- 1972-1970
- 1 Item
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The Kafirs illustrated. A facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition of hand-coloured lithographs. With a new introd. by Frank R. Bradlow.
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- Cape Town, A. A. Balkema, 1974.
- 1974-1849
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc++ 572.968-A (Angas, G. Kafirs illustrated) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Christianity and Xhosa tradition : belief and ritual among Xhosa-speaking Christians / B. A. Pauw.
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- Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 276.68-P (Pauw, B. Christianity and Xhosa tradition) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Christianity and Xhosa tradition : belief and ritual among Xhosa-speaking Christians / B. A. Pauw.
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- Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
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The pagan soul / [by] B. J. F. Laubscher.
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- London : Spearman, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
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The magic world of the Xhosa.
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- New York, Scribner [1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-E (Elliott, A. Magic world of the Xhosa) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Tembu : their beadwork, songs, and dances / Joan A. Broster ; with an introd. by Kaiser Matanzima.
- Text
- Cape Town : New York : Purnell, c1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
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The role of African clergy in the reorientation of Xhosa society to the plural society in the Cape Colony, 1850-1915.
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- Los Angeles, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
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The God of the Xhosa : a study of the origins and development of the traditional concepts of the supreme being / Janet Hodgson.
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- Cape Town : Oxford University Press, c1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 87-1073 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The ochre people / Noni Jabavu.
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- Braamfontein, South Africa : Ravan Press, 1982.
- 1982
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 916.8-J (Jabavu, N. Ochre people) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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The house of Phalo : a history of the Xhosa people in the days of their independence / J.B. Peires.
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1982.
- 1982
- 2 Items
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The edges of war : a history of frontier wars (1702-1878) / John Milton.
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- Cape Town : Juta, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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The use of tobacco and alcoholic beverages by male and female Xhosa in Transkei in relation to cancer of the oesophagus / by Evelyn Bradshaw, N.D. McGlshan and J.S. Harrington.
- Text
- Grahamstown : Institute of Social and Economic Research. Rhodes University, in association with the National Cancer Association of South Africa, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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Living in two worlds : communication between a white healer and her Black counterparts / M. Vera Bührmann.
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- Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 86-267 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The secret of the mountain / by Esther Linfield.
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- New York : Greenwillow Books, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
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A history of the Xhosa of the Northern Cape 1795-1879 / by Elisabeth Anderson.
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- [Rondebosch] : Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
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The dead will arise : Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7 / J.B. Peires.
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- Johannesburg : Ravan Press ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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[Szladits collection] [realia].
- Artifact
- 1920?-1939?
- 1920-1939
[Eric de Kolb collection of African arms] [realia].
- Artifact
- 1900?-1944.
- 1900-1944
The settler and the savage: a tale of peace and war in South Africa. With illustrations.
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- Toronto : A. G. Watson, [pref. 1877]
- 1877
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Fic (Ballantyne, R. Settler and the savage) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Kafir socialism and the dawn of individualism; an introduction to the study of the native problem, by Dudley Kidd.
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- London, A. and C. Black, 1908.
- 1908
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text BNE (Kidd, D. Kafir socialism and the dawn of individualism) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 323.168-K (Kidd, D. Kafir socialism and the dawn of individualism) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Travels and researches in Caffraria : describing the character, customs, and moral condition of the tribes inhabiting that portion of southern Africa : with historical and topographical remarks illustrative of the state and prospects of the British settlement in its borders, the introduction of Christianity, and the progress of civilization / by Stephen Kay, corresponding member of the South African Institution, established for investigating the geography, natural history, and general resources of southern Africa.
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- New-York : Published by Harper & Brothers, no. 82 Cliff-Street, 1834.
- 1834
- 2 Items
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https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b268414Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text BND (Kay, S. Travels and researches in Caffraria. 1834) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 266-K (Kay, S. Travels and researches in Caffraria) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sketches of Kafir life, with illustrations. With preface by Alan G. S. Gibson.
- Text
- London, Oxford, A.R. Mowbray & co., limited, 1905.
- 1905
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 266-C (Callaway, G. Sketches of Kafir life) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Townsmen or tribesmen; conservatism and the process of urbanization in a South African city [by] Philip Mayer, with contributions by Iona Mayer.
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- Cape Town, Published on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University [by] Oxford University Press, 1961.
- 1961
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 301.3-M (Mayer, P. Townsmen or tribesmen) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Nomalizo, or, "The things of this life are sheer vanity", by Enoch S. Guma. Translated into English by S.J. Wallis.
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- London, Sheldon Press, 1951.
- 1951
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Fic (Guma, E. Nomalizo) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Kaffirs are lively, being some backstage impressions of the South African democracy.
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- London, V. Gollancz, 1948.
- 1948
- 2 Items
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Frontiers : the epic of South Africa's creation and the tragedy of the Xhosa people / Noël Mostert.
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- London : Jonathan Cape, 1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 92-196 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
To my children's children / Sindiwe Magona.
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- London : Women's Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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The world and the word : tales and observations from the Xhosa oral tradition / Nongenile Masithathu Zenani ; collected and edited, with an introduction, commentaries, and annotations by Harold Scheub.
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- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 92-503 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Xhosa law of persons; a treatise on the legal principles of family relations among the Amaxhosa. With an introd. by J. W. Sleigh.
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- Cape Town, Juta [1948]
- 1948
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SNM (Tromp, J. van Xhosa law of persons) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 349.68-T (Tromp, J. van. Xhosa law of persons) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Imbumba yamaNyama, ngu D.D.T. Jabavu.
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- [Lovedale, C. P., South Africa?] Printed by the Lovedale Press for the Publischer, Prof. D.D.T. Jabavu, 1953.
- 1953
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 496.3-J (Jabavu, D. Imbumba yamaNyama) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Ama-Xosa: life and customs, by John Henderson Soga ...
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- Lovedale, C.P., South Africa, Lovedale Press; London, K. Paul Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd. [1932]
- 1932
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-S (Soga, J. Ama-Xosa) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Savage childhood : a study of Kafir children / by Dudley Kidd ; with thirty-two full-page illustrations from photographs by the author.
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- London : Adam and Charles Black, 1906.
- 1906
- 3 Items
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https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t59c7hs3cItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-K (Kidd, D. Savage childhood) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-K (Kidd, D. Savage childhood) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-K (Kidd, D. Savage childhood) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The origin of Xosas and others.
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- Cape Town, Juta, 1911.
- 1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-M (McKay, J. Origin of Xosas and others) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Industrie des Cafres du sud-est de l'Afrique; collection recueillie sur les lieux et notice ethnographique, par Hendrik P.N. Muller. Description des objets représentés, par Joh. F. Snelleman.
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- Leyde, E. J. Brill [1893]
- 1893
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QPE+ (Muller, H. P. N. Industrie des Cafres) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ 572.968-M (Muller, H. Industrie des cafres) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A compendium of Kafir laws and customs : including genealogical tables of Kafir chiefs and various tribal census returns / compiled by direction of Colonel Maclean, C.B. chief commissioner in British Kaffaria.
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- [Mount Coke, South Africa] : Printed for the Government of British Kaffraria. Mount Coke: Wesleyan Mission Press, 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 572.968-M (Maclean, J. Compendium of Kafir laws) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The tribes of King William's Town district / by W. D. Hammond-Tooke.
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- Pretoria : Govt. Printer, 1958.
- 1958
- 1 Item
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Beachcombers of the African jungle.
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- Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1958 [i.e. 1959]
- 1959
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 916-S (Sholomir, J. Beachcombers of the African jungle) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Short papers chiefly on South African subjects, by Andrew Smith.
- Text
- Lovedale, South Africa, Lovedale Institution Press, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1893.
- 1893
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text BN (Smith, A. Short papers chiefly on South African subjects) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Cape and the Kafirs, or, Notes of five years' residence in South Africa / by Alfred W. Cole.
- Text
- London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852.
- 1852
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text BNI (Cole, A. W. Cape and the Kafirs) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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Brownlee J. Ross : his ancestry and some writings.
- Text
- [Lovedale] : Lovedale Press, 1948.
- 1948
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 920-R (Ross, B. Brownlee J. Ross) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
South Africa, past and present : a short history of the European settlements at the Cape / by John Noble, clerk of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony.
- Text
- London : Longmans & Co. ; Cape Town, South Africa : J.C. Juta, 1877.
- 1877
- 2 Items
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https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5r78gx48Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 968-N (Noble, J. South Africa, past and present) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 968-N (Noble, J. South Africa, past and present) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Fifteen months among the Kaffirs, by E.W. Phillips; illustrated by W.E. Borrow.
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- London, Dean & Son, Limited [188-?]
- 1880-1889
- 1 Item
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Kafir stories / William Charles Scully.
- Text
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1895.
- 1895
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Fic (Scully, W. Kafir stories) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Ntsikana: the story of an African convert; with an appendix "Ibali lika Ntsikana" in the native language.
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- 1914
- 1 Item
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Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work / by John A. Chalmers.
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- Edinburgh : Andrew Elliot ; London : Hodder & Stoughton ; Glasgow : David Bryce & Son ; Grahamstown, Cape Colony : James Kay, 1877.
- 1877
- 1 Item
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Rapport.
- Text
- Pretoria, 1899.
- 1892-1898
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SDG+ (South African Republic. Naturellen, Superintendent van. Rapport) 1898 Offsite
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