Download or read book History of the Basuto Ancient and Modern written by D. Frédéric Ellenberger and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Frédéric Ellenberger (1835-1919) was a Swiss French Protestant missionary who left for Basutoland (present-day Lesotho) in 1860 as a member of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. Ellenberger spent more than 45 years collecting the oral traditions of the Basotho (also known as Sotho) people. His method was to gather "all the information which it was still possible to obtain from intelligent old men concerning the tribes, their origin, their manners, their form of government, their beliefs, the genealogy of the chiefs, etc." His objective was to preserve, for the Basotho, their historical memory, which he saw as being lost through contact with Westerners and other Africans. Ellenberger kept his notes in French, and this English edition of his work, published in 1912, was written by his son-in-law, J.C. MacGregor, a British colonial administrator. The book includes genealogies going back to 1450, a history of the Basotho people from their origins to 1833 (when the missionaries arrived), and an account of the rise of Moshoeshoe I (circa 1786-1870), the founder and first paramount chief of the Sotho people. The appendix includes chapters on religion, hunting, witchcraft, law and social order, and Basotho character and manners. A Sesotho version of Ellenberger's history, Histori ea Basotho, was published in 1917.

Download or read book The Basutos written by Eugène Casalis and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basuto Traditions written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Basuto written by Hugh Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1952 and as a second edition in 1967 this volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture, and reviews the developments and changes leading up to 1966 when Basutoland achieved independence as Lesotho. It describes in detail daily lives, the education and upbringing of children, initiation, marriage, economic activities and political developments within and outside the country. It includes a discussion of tribal and modern law and the workings of the courts and a study of the part played by magic and sorcery and an analysis of the motives leading to the out break of 'medicine' murders in the 1940s.

Download or read book Monomotapa Zulu Basuto written by Kenny Mann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of four African kingdoms which once occupied the region south of the Zambezi River, this study offers insights into the distinctive customs of the indigenous peoples of southern Africa and examines how the European powers changed life in the area forever through colonization and conflict.

Download or read book A Fragment of Basuto History 1854 to 1871 written by George McCall Theal and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials on the history of the Basuto tribe of Basutoland (Sotho, or Lesotho, southern Africa). Part one is an introductory chapter; part two is titled: "The war of 1865 between the Free State and Basutoland, with the events that led to it.".

Download or read book The Basuto written by Edmund Hugh Ashton and published by London ; New York [etc.] : published for the International African Institute by the Oxford U.P.. This book was released on 1967 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Voice of the People written by 'Makali Isabella Mokitimi and published by Unisa Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 584 proverbs from published and unpublished sources. Although Lesotho is one of the smallest countries in Africa and land-locked by South Africa, Sesotho is widely spoken and is not confined to its geographical borders. Like most African proverbs, they reflect a rural background.

Download or read book My Life in Basuto Land 1889 written by Eugene Casalis and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book The Basuto written by Hugh Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basotho Religion and Western Thought written by L. B. B. J. Machobane and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Time of Cannibals written by David B. Coplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry—word music—that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals the relationship between these Basotho workers and the local and South African powers that be, the "cannibals" who live off of the workers' labor. David Coplan presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people. Coplan discusses every aspect of the Basotho musical literature, taking into account historical conditions, political dynamics, and social forces as well as the styles, artistry, and occasions of performance. He engages the postmodern challenge to decolonize our representation of the ethnographic subject and demonstrates how performance formulates local knowledge and communicates its shared understandings. Complete with transcriptions of full male and female performances, this book develops a theoretical and methodological framework crucial to anyone seeking to understand the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of performance. This work is an important contribution to South African studies, to ethnomusicology and anthropology, and to performance studies in general.

Download or read book The Basuto written by François Laydevant and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Basutos written by E. Casalis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Download or read book The Basuto of Basutoland written by Adolphe Mabee and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A South African Kingdom written by Elizabeth A. Eldredge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Basotho and the transition from chiefdom to kingdom to British colony, first published in 2003.

Download or read book Basotho written by Gary Van Wyk and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Basotho people of South Africa and Lesotho.