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- catalog contributor b11913775.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 281-285.".
- catalog description "Daily life in Xam-ka!au. Life and death in Xam-ka!au. A litany of death. Death on the hunting-ground. Starvation from drought. The Xam-ka!ei and animals. How Kasin's eldest brother was carried off by a lion. A day of adventure and tragedy. Leopard-hunting: the fatal adventure of!Kwai-kwa and his companion. Adventure with a family of baboons. The giving of names. How Mansse obtained the name!Kau/noan. Why Diä!kwain's brother Tho-bbo was so named. Artefacts and poisons. Arrow-making. The arrow barb. Poisons. Stone artefacts. Porcupines. Sharing porcupine meat. The porcupine's tail. The Koranna. The escape of Kannan from the Koranna commando. How the approach of a commando was foretold by the mist. Relations with colonists. Sir Bartle Frere returns to Cape Town. Letter from Diä!kwain to his sister!Kweiten-ta-//ken and her family. Dreams of home, and life with the magistrate. Gui-an and her mistress, Trina de Klerck. Hunting ostriches and bartering their feathers for tobacco. ".
- catalog description "Myth, ritual and belief. Kaggen and his family. How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis (Kaggen) did with the honey. The Mantis's fight with the cat and the Ichneumon's rebuke. The Ichneumon argues with the meerkats. Kwammang-a is found by crows. Animal tales. The lion and the jackals. A gemsbok becomes a lion. The old woman who was carried off by a hyena. The Kain-Kain, the girls and the Mantis. The first Xam man brings home a young lion. The early race. A man put into a mouse skin turns into a lion. People of the Early Race hunt lions. About a moth called!kum!kum and said to pour lice upon them. The fox and the Koranna commando. The youth of the early race who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando. How the rain in the form of an eland was shot by one of the early race of people. The woman who was killed by the baboons. Ritual relations with animals. The Mantis tries to save the hartebeest. The killing of a white springbok. The springbok's tongue. ".
- catalog description "When game has been shot. The Nuturu. The moon. The moon not to be laughed at. Hunting with a dog and asking the moon for luck. The moon, moths and game. The moon and the hare. Shamans. Shamans and swallows. Karosses must not be beaten upon the ground. A rock painting. //Kabbo causes rain to fall. New maidens. A ceremony performed by /Xam girls at puberty. Men turned into trees by the glance of a new maiden. New maidens and the rain. The girl who made locusts. New maidens and frogs.".
- catalog extent "xi, 285 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Stories that float from afar.".
- catalog identifier "0864864620 (D. Philip)".
- catalog identifier "1585441120 (Texas A&M University Press)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stories that float from afar.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 5".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cape Town : David Philip ; College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Stories that float from afar.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Southern.".
- catalog subject "GR358.2.B83 S76 2000".
- catalog subject "San (African people) Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Tales Africa, Southern.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Daily life in Xam-ka!au. Life and death in Xam-ka!au. A litany of death. Death on the hunting-ground. Starvation from drought. The Xam-ka!ei and animals. How Kasin's eldest brother was carried off by a lion. A day of adventure and tragedy. Leopard-hunting: the fatal adventure of!Kwai-kwa and his companion. Adventure with a family of baboons. The giving of names. How Mansse obtained the name!Kau/noan. Why Diä!kwain's brother Tho-bbo was so named. Artefacts and poisons. Arrow-making. The arrow barb. Poisons. Stone artefacts. Porcupines. Sharing porcupine meat. The porcupine's tail. The Koranna. The escape of Kannan from the Koranna commando. How the approach of a commando was foretold by the mist. Relations with colonists. Sir Bartle Frere returns to Cape Town. Letter from Diä!kwain to his sister!Kweiten-ta-//ken and her family. Dreams of home, and life with the magistrate. Gui-an and her mistress, Trina de Klerck. Hunting ostriches and bartering their feathers for tobacco. ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Myth, ritual and belief. Kaggen and his family. How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis (Kaggen) did with the honey. The Mantis's fight with the cat and the Ichneumon's rebuke. The Ichneumon argues with the meerkats. Kwammang-a is found by crows. Animal tales. The lion and the jackals. A gemsbok becomes a lion. The old woman who was carried off by a hyena. The Kain-Kain, the girls and the Mantis. The first Xam man brings home a young lion. The early race. A man put into a mouse skin turns into a lion. People of the Early Race hunt lions. About a moth called!kum!kum and said to pour lice upon them. The fox and the Koranna commando. The youth of the early race who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando. How the rain in the form of an eland was shot by one of the early race of people. The woman who was killed by the baboons. Ritual relations with animals. The Mantis tries to save the hartebeest. The killing of a white springbok. The springbok's tongue. ".
- catalog tableOfContents "When game has been shot. The Nuturu. The moon. The moon not to be laughed at. Hunting with a dog and asking the moon for luck. The moon, moths and game. The moon and the hare. Shamans. Shamans and swallows. Karosses must not be beaten upon the ground. A rock painting. //Kabbo causes rain to fall. New maidens. A ceremony performed by /Xam girls at puberty. Men turned into trees by the glance of a new maiden. New maidens and the rain. The girl who made locusts. New maidens and frogs.".
- catalog title "Stories that float from afar : ancestral folklore of the San of southern Africa / edited with an introduction by J.D. Lewis-Williams.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".