Baessler-Archiv: Baessler-Archiv,  43/44=68/69.1995(1995/96)

Baessler-Archiv, 43/44=68/69.1995(1995/96)

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

Persistenter Identifier:: BV044347945

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv

Untertitel:: Beiträge zur Völkerkunde

ISSN:: 0005-3856

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Reimer

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1910

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Strukturtyp:: Zeitschriftenband

Werks-URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711537

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711537

Persistenter Identifier:: 1501142220692

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv, 43/44=68/69.1995(1995/96)

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1996

Signatur:: LA 1255

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Strukturtyp:: Zeitschriftenheft

Titel:: N. F. Bd. 44, 1996, Heft 1

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Zulu Beadwork Messages: Chromographic versus Alphabetic Notation

Sonstige Person:: Wickler, Wolfgang; Seibt, Uta

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Baessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XLIV (1996) 23 ZULU BEADWORK MESSAGES: CHROMOGRAPHIC VERSUS ALPHABETIC NOTATION. WOLFGANG WICKLER AND UTA SEIBT, Seewiesen Introduction The illiterate Zulu and related South African peoples traditionally used coloured beads to convey messages. Their colour-based notation system came up to considerable complexity in the first decades of our century. Literate Zulu now abandon colour-coding in favour of writing on paper. There is, however, a transitional phase of alphabetization which is here analyzed. Letters of our alphabet about 1950 invaded colour-coded beadwork, at first as ornaments; later they were used as graphemes to write words with beads. Although westernization now everywhere imposes writing with the western alphabet, the transition from a pre existing coding system to alphabetical writing has not been documented. Bead literacy in southern Africa represents a transitional stage which illustrates both, advantages and shortcomings of superseding a traditional colour-code by true writing. We document this by comparing structure and semantics of authentic colour-coded messages with those of texts recently written with beads. A Recording messages In order to express personal feelings and to preserve and/or transport messages, African peoples often use ornamentation: of their bodies, their homes, of wooden articles, of mats, baskets, pottery, or beadwork. Decorative scarification in elaborate design may tell the life history of a Kuba person in Zaire; in the related Hemba it even refers to proverbs (K. Ntole 1980, unpublished conference paper). Such scarification has been called “tegumentary language”; in fact, one of the Luba words for the verb “to scarify” (kulemba) has been extended to mean “to write” after peoples of southeastern Zaire came into contact with colonials (Ro berts 1988). The Harari in East Ethiopia in their basketwork (which is carried out by women and thought to be the most refined in all of Ethiopia) use intricate

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