Ethnography from the Mission Field
Subtitle: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng; nso
Number of pages: 1172
ISBN-13: 9789004297722
Subjects: Basuto (african people); South africa, social life and customs; Ethnology, africa; Oral tradition; Sotho-tswana languages; Missions, south africa
Description: "The translated and annotated ethnographic articles of Carl Hoffmann form the core of this book. They are preceded by an introduction and historical contextualisation. Following the Hoffmann corpus is a section in which orthographic developments are reflected upon and grammatical observations are made."--Summarised preview.