Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute: Scholarly assessment and preparation of manuscripts for the remaining two volumes of Oswin Köhler's Khwe encyclopaedia

Kxoé 布须曼人的世界：奥斯温·科勒的 Khwe 百科全书剩余两卷的学术评估和手稿准备

基本信息

批准号：
259322312
负责人：
Professor Dr. Rainer Voßen
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Afrikanistik
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2013-12-31 至 2022-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/259322312?language=en
关键词：
Die Welt der Kxo Buschleute

项目摘要

The Khwe in Namibiaʼs Bwabwata National Park belong to the groups of former hunter-gatherers who are usually called “San” or “Bushmen” in southern Africa. Their language belongs to the Khoe language family within South African Khoisan. Former anthropological research interests as well as reasons related to the political history of Namibia were responsible for the Khwe escaping the attention of many anthropologists in the period between 1960 and 1990. This made the Africanist Oswin Köhler (1911-1996) the sole researcher who dedicated a large portion of his academic research to the language and culture of the Khwe (in his orthography: Kxoé) before Namibian independence in 1990. He pursued the ambitious aim of publishing an encyclopaedia in vernacular texts, covering all aspects of Khwe culture. The first two out of a total of five planned volumes were published in 1989 and 1991. The manuscript for the third volume was prepared by Köhler and jointly edited by the applicant and Klaus Keuthmann in 1997 posthumously.The scholarly assessment and publication of the unpublished material for volume V are the subject of the present application (volume IV was prepared for publication during the first project phase). Köhlerʼs Khwe material includes vernacular texts in different versions and stages of processing, related photographs, video- and audio-files as well as correspondence, research reports etc. Different from the third volume, we lack text versions, translations, comments, analytical texts and pictures, which have been authorized by Oswin Köhler himself. In order to comply with the spirit of the deceased, it is therefore necessary to separate Köhlerʼs own tasks from those of the editors. While the edition aims to ensure, as far as feasible, continuity regarding the outward appearance of the published volumes, it at the same time aims to guarantee transparency regarding the authorship of individual work steps. For this purpose it will be necessary to examine and select the relevant materials for volumes IV (as accomplished in the current project phase) and V (as planned for the project phase applied for here), to identify the most advanced text versions prepared by Köhler and, if possible, to contextualize his decisions regarding the contents of texts. Moreover, detailed annotations, a text historical analysis, the consultation of publications on Khwe culture after Köhler, and the preparation of interlinear and English translations are imperative.Köhler compiled the Khwe material during more than 20 research trips to Namibia be-tween 1959 and 1992 which in both kind and scope represents a unique document of the Khwe cultural and historical heritage. Apart from this, its scholarly assessment will yield important insights into comparative Khoisan research and the population history of the Kalahari Basin Area. The proposed research team will be made up of the same experts in Khoisan studies as in the first project phase.

纳米比亚布瓦布瓦塔国家公园的科瓦人属于前狩猎采集群体，在南部非洲通常被称为“桑人”或“布须曼人”，他们的语言也属于南非科伊桑语系。由于与纳米比亚政治历史相关的原因，Khwe 人在 1960 年至 1990 年间逃脱了许多人类学家的注意。这使得非洲学家 Oswin Köhler（1911-1996）是 1990 年纳米比亚独立之前唯一将大部分学术研究奉献给 Khwe（其正字法：Kxoé）语言和文化的研究员。他追求出版百科全书的雄心勃勃的目标计划出版的五卷中的前两卷于 1989 年和 1991 年出版。第三卷的手稿由 Köhler 编写，并由申请人和 Klaus Keuthmann 于 1997 年死后共同编辑。第五卷未发表材料的学术评估和出版是本申请的主题（第四卷是在 1997 年准备出版的）科勒的 Khwe 材料包括不同版本和处理阶段的白话文本、相关照片、视频和音频文件以及信件、研究报告等。第三卷，我们缺乏奥斯文·科勒本人授权的文本版本、翻译、评论、分析文本和图片。为了符合死者的精神，因此有必要将科勒自己的任务与他的任务分开。虽然该版本旨在尽可能确保已出版卷的外观的连续性，但同时也旨在保证各个工作步骤的权威性的透明度。检查并选择相关的第四卷（如当前项目阶段完成的）和第五卷（如此处申请的项目阶段的计划）的材料，以确定科勒准备的最先进的文本版本，并在可能的情况下，将他关于此外，详细的注释、文本历史分析、科勒之后有关科勒文化的出版物的查阅以及行间和英文翻译的准备都是势在必行的。科勒在20多次前往纳米比亚的考察期间收集了科勒的科勒材料1959 年至 1992 年间，它在种类和范围上都代表了 Khwe 文化和历史遗产的独特文献。除此之外，其学术评估将为比较科伊桑研究和卡拉哈里盆地地区的人口历史提供重要见解。研究团队将由与项目第一阶段相同的科伊桑研究专家组成。