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31 lip 2014 · Book Reviews. Xhosa History Preserved. Mbongiseni Buthelezi. Pages 883-884 | Published online: 31 Jul 2014. Download citation. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2014.933046. Full Article. Figures & data. Citations. Metrics. Reprints & Permissions. Get access. Click to increase image size. Log in via your institution. Access through your institution.
offer here a consideration of nineteenth-century Xhosa literature in three media: printed books, the spoken word and newspapers. Literature in books. The story of creative literature printed in books - the staple of western European literary histories - can be swiftly told.
Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Eastern Cape, the paper explores the interconnections between dreams (amathongo, amaphupha) and medicines (amayeza, imithi, amachiza) as aspects of the Xhosa diviner’s culture, knowledge and
1 kwi 2014 · The indigenous people of Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa depend on the natural plant resources from their environment for medicine, food, pastoral, cultural and religious needs.
The indigenous people of Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa depend on the natural plant resources from their environment for medicine, food, pastoral, cultural and religious needs. This area, mainly inhabited by the Xhosa people, has remained ethnobotanically unexplored until recently.
22 sty 2009 · The fullest accounts of Xhosa religion are Soga, J. H., The Ama-Xosa: Life and Customs (Lovedale, n.d.), chs. viii – x Google Scholar, and Kropf, A., Das Volk der Xosa-Kaffern (Berlin, 1889), 186–209 Google Scholar. Most of the early travellers and missionaries have useful descriptions.
Of all the indigenous languages of South Africa - excluding English but including Afrikaans - Xhosa was the first to be systematically transcribed and printed, and the first to develop into a mature, well-established literature in print, a process that took place entirely in the nineteenth century.
