Ethnography from the mission field : : the Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge / / [edited] by Annekie Joubert, in collaboration with Gerrie Grobler, Inge Kosch, Lize Kriel.

"The translated and annotated ethnographic articles of Carl Hoffmann form the core of this book. They are preceded by an introduction and historical contextualisation. Following the Hoffmann corpus is a section in which orthographic developments are reflected upon and grammatical observations a...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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German
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1,169 pages) :; illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color), facsimiles
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  • Translation from German to English by Klaudia Ringelmann.
  • "The texts that were documented by Hoffmann and which are the focus of our research in this publication, were written in the Semamabolo (Mamabolo) dialect, which is close to the standardised form [of Northern Sotho]. To make these texts more accessible they have been rendered in the current official orthography in accordance with the Northern Sotho Terminology and Orthography rules Number 4 (Department of Education and Training 1988)."--Chapter 29.
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