The Bleek Collection BC 151 [microform] : notebooks. 1871-1925.

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The Bleek Collection BC 151 [microform] : notebooks. 1871-1925.

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Consists of over 12,000 pages of notebooks in which Bleek and Lloyd recorded the language and mythology of the /Xam, a now extinct hunter-gatherer society which formed part of the Southern Bushmen or San. Text consists of /Xam words or narrative written in a phonetic script developed by Bleek, with the English translation.

ca. 44 v. : ill., maps.

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Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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Lloyd, Lucy, 1834-1914

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University of Cape Town. Libraries. Manuscripts and Archives Dept.

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Bleek, W.H.I. (Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel), 1827-1875

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Epithet: philologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x0002da Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek, philologist, Africanist, and librarian, was born in Berlin, Germany on March 8, 1827. He studied theology and philology at the University of Bonn (1845-1848) and the University of Berlin (1848-1849) and received his Ph.D. from the former in 1851. Between 1852-1855 Bleek made many research trips to Africa. In 18...

Bleek, Dorothea Frances, 1873-1948

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Dorothea Frances Bleek (b. March 26, 1873, Cape Town, South Africa-d. June 27, 1948, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen (the San people) of southern Africa. Her father, Wilhelm Bleek, was a pioneering philologist studying the languages and cultures of southern Africa. He worked with Lucy Lloyd, the sister of his wife. The work of Dorothy Bleek was largely a continuation of her father and aunt's research...