"We spend our years as a tale that is told" : oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom /

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Author / Creator:Hofmeyr, Isabel
Imprint:Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; London : J. Currey, 1994.
Description:xvi, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Social history of Africa
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1554577
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ISBN:0435080997
043508951X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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