Recessional for Grace
Marguerite Poland
302 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0670047864
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2003
When a postgraduate student of African languages, looking for a topic for her doctoral thesis, happens upon an obscure and incomplete lexicon of metaphorical names for indigenous Sanga-Nguni cattle by a long-dead academic, she knows, instinctively, that she has found her subject.