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

• Author: Hoffmann, C. 1868-1962.
• TeilnehmendeR: Joubert, Annekie, 1961-; Grobler, G. M. M.; Kosch, I. M.; Kriel, Lize.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1169 p.)
• Notes: 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 No. 4 (Department of Education and Training 1988)."--Chapter 29.

In Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge Joubert and others offer a translated and annotated edition of the 24 ethnographic articles by missionary Carl Hoffmann and his local interlocutors published between the years 1913 and 1958. The edition is introduce...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• In and from the Field: A Journey into the Life of a ‘Mission-Ethnographer’ and His Co-Producers
• Historic Contextualisation / Lize Kriel
• Corpus of Hoffmann’s Ethnographic Articles / Gerrie Grobler , Annekie Joubert and Inge Kosch
• Article 1 (1913). Engagement and Marriage among the Sotho People in the Woodbush Mountains of the Transvaal—Peeletšo le lenyalo Basothong ba Lebowa ba Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 2 (1915). The Initiation School of the Sotho People in the Woodbush Mountains of the Transvaal—Koma ya banna ya Basotho ba Lebowa ba Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 3 (1915). Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal—Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 4 (1916). Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal—Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 5 (1916). Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal—Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 6 (1916). Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal—Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 7 (1928). Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal—Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 8 (1928/29). Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal—Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 9 (1930/31). Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Totems and Prohibitions—Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Meano le Dikganetšo / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 10 (1931/32). Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Spirits That Are with Some Stones and Other Things and Witchcraft—Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Moya wo o nago le maswika a mangwe le ge e le dilo tše dingwe le boloi / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 11 (1932). Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: The Soul in Death and after Death—Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Moya wa motho mohlang wa lehu le ka morago ga lehu / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel
• Article 12 (1933/34). Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Legal Practices of the Northern Sotho People—Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Tirišo ya melao ya Basotho ba Lebowa / Annekie Joubert , Gerrie Grobler , Inge Kosch and Lize Kriel.