The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral Tradition

The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from the XHOSA Oral Tradition. By Nongenile Masithathu Zenani. Edited, with an introduction, by Harold Scheub. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. 499 pp. Hardbound, $39.95.

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