Imbumba yamaNyama
Item
- Title
- Imbumba yamaNyama
- Location - URL
- Link to full-text
- Creator
- Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo
- Date
- 1953
- Description
- This book brings together a series of Xhosa studies focused on four interrelated areas: the annual Ntsikana commemorations observed in the Cape Province; the clan names of the Xhosa people; the praise names associated with these clans; and a historical account of the Intlangwini tribes of South Africa. The studies are the outcome of more than thirty-five years of intermittent research and are published here for the first time. By documenting and analysing these cultural, historical, and linguistic traditions, the book seeks to preserve knowledge that has been insufficiently explored and is at risk of neglect by the present generation. The work draws on, and acknowledges, key scholarly contributions, including Dr R. H. W. Shepherd’s article on Ntsikana, which provides essential historical context, and Mr C. A. W. Sigila’s study of the Fingo celebrations. Overall, the volume aims to stimulate further research into Xhosa history, identity, and oral tradition, and to encourage renewed scholarly engagement with related, under-researched topics.
- Subject
- amaXhosa -- Social life and customs
- Clans -- South Africa
- Fingo People
- AmaMfengu
- Clan names
- Intlangwini People
- Genealogy
- Format
- Book
- Language
- isiXhosa
- Type
- Text
- Archive
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University
- has place of publication
- Lovedale, South Africa
- Publisher
- Lovedale Press
- Item sets
- Lovedale Press
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