The Language of Myth and Art (eBook)

Preface (David M. Witelson)

Chapter 1. An Intercontinental Quest
Chapter 2. Questions of Evidence
Chapter 3. Myth, Art and a Shared Experience
Chapter 4. San Orality and Allusiveness: Exploring Below the Surface
Chapter 5. As Uncountable as Grains of Sand: Dynamic |Xam Myths
Chapter 6. Three Verbatim |Xam Texts and Their Narrators
Chapter 7. Contrasting Protagonists
Chapter 8. Allusive Actions, Powerful Substances and an Incantation
Chapter 9. A Contrasting Performance Setting
Chapter 10. Language and Setting in the Apprehension of Imagery
Chapter 11. Language Made Visible
Chapter 12. Human and Hybrid Anthropomorphs
Chapter 13. Allusive Objects
Chapter 14. A San Cynosure
Chapter 15. Creative Performances: Making Eland, Making Images
Chapter 16. Performance, Orality and Synoptic Questions

Epilogue: The Consonance of San Expressive Culture
References
Index