In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface Orthographic Note
• Chapter 1 : "Hyenas Do Not Sleep Together": The Interpretation of Basotho Migrants' Auriture
• Chapter 2 : "The Mouth of a Commoner Is Not Listened To": Power, Performance, and History
• Chapter 3 : "Greetings, Child of God!": Generations of Travelers and Their Songs
• Chapter 4 : "An Initiation Secret Is Not Told at Home": The Making of a Country Traveler
• Chapter 5 : "These Mine Compounds, I Have Long Worked Them": Auriture and Migrants' Labors
• Chapter 6 : "I'd Rather Die in the Whiteman's Land": The Traveling Women of Eloquence
• Chapter 7 : "My Heart Fights with My Understanding": Bar Women's Auriture and Basotho Popular Culture
• Chapter 8 : "Eloquence Is Not Stuck on Like a Feather": Sesotho Aural Composition and Aesthetics
• Chapter 9 : "Laughter Is Greater than Death": Migrants' Songs and the Meaning of Sesotho
• Appendix One
• Appendix Two
• References
• Index Notes