The First Bushman's Path by Alan James

ISBN: 9780869809914 / 0869809911 - The First Bushman's Path: Stories, Songs and Testimonies of the /Xam of the Northern Cape by Alan James. Published by UKZN Books, 2001. Softcover. Used, Excellent condition. 269 pp.

The First Bushmen, or the First-there-sitting-People, established the path along which all dead people and animals would travel to get to their final holding place, a great hole in the ground. And it was these First Bushmen who had been the original occupants of the land in which the /Xam lived, and about whom stories were told. So declared //Kabbo, one of the last of the /Xam San to narrate the stories and oral traditions which had helped to make the /Xam who they were, and to construct their land and make it livable.

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