The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research by Norman K. Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln

Author:Norman K. Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2017-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

21 In the Name of Human Rights: I Say (How) You (Should) Speak (Before I Listen)1

Antjie Krog

It is the year 1872. A Bushman shaman called //Kabbo narrates an incident to a German philologist Wilhelm Bleek in Cape Town, South Africa. In the narration, which took Bleek from April 13 to September 19 to record and translate from /Xam into English, the following two paragraphs appear, describing how a young woman tracks down her nomadic family:

She [the young widow] arrives with her children at the water hole. There she sees her younger brother’s footprints by the water. She sees her mother’s footprint by the water. She sees her brother’s wife’s spoor by the water.

She tells her children: “Grandfather’s people’s footprints are here; they had been carrying dead springbok to the water so that people can drink on their way back with the game. The house is near. We shall follow the footprints because the footprints are new. We must look for the house. We must follow the footprints. For the people’s footprints were made today; the people fetched water shortly before we came.” (Lewis-Williams, 2002, p. 61)

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