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Dreaming The Karoo A People Called The Xam Julia Blackburn

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Dreaming The Karoo A People Called The Xam Julia Blackburn
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Publisher: Random House
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 43.62 MB
Pages: 304
Author: Julia Blackburn
ISBN: 9781473574045, 9781787332188, 1787332187, 1473574048
Language: English
Year: 2022

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Dreaming The Karoo A People Called The Xam Julia Blackburn by Julia Blackburn 9781473574045, 9781787332188, 1787332187, 1473574048 instant download after payment.

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.
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...

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