In the Time of Cannibals
Subtitle: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 7, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780226115733
First sentence: The image of the cannibal, the human being who prospers by devouring his own kind in an ultimate zero-sum game, is a resonant and fearful symbol in Basotho historical consciousness.