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Author Lewis-Williams, J. David, author.

Title Myth and meaning : San-Bushman folklore in global context / J.D. Lewis-Williams
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prologue: a broken string? -- Facsimile pages from one of Lucy Lloyd's 1875 notebooks -- Myth in its San incarnation -- Bringing home the honey -- The mantis makes an eland -- The fight with the meerkats -- A visit to the lion's house -- The mantis dreams -- Narrating and painting -- People of the eland -- The broken string -- 'They do not possess my stories'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject San (African people) -- Folklore
Mythology, San.
Cosmology, San.
Shamanism -- Africa, Southern
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Cosmology, San
Mythology, San
San (African people)
Shamanism
Southern Africa
Genre/Form Folklore
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781629581569
1629581569
9781629581576
1629581577