{"publishers": ["Clarendon Press"], "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["836804"]}, "isbn_10": ["0198151403"], "subject_place": ["South Africa", "Transkei.", "Zululand."], "covers": [9514088], "lc_classifications": ["GR359.2.X64 S33", "GR359.2.X64.S33"], "key": "/books/OL4927304M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL27611A"}], "ocaid": "xhosantsomi00sche", "publish_places": ["Oxford [Eng.]"], "pagination": "x, 446 p., [2] leaves of plates :", "source_records": ["ia:xhosantsomi00sche", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part10.utf8:14867018:1079", "bwb:9780198151401", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.00.20150123.full.mrc:700625900:979", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_018.bib.mrc:215205167:3137"], "title": "The Xhosa Ntsomi", "dewey_decimal_class": ["398/.042/0968"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Bibliography: p. [432]-433.\nIncludes indexes."}, "number_of_pages": 446, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}, {"key": "/languages/xho"}], "lccn": ["76353769"], "subjects": ["Storytelling -- South Africa -- Transkei.", "Storytelling -- South Africa -- Zululand.", "Drama -- South Africa -- Transkei.", "Drama -- South Africa -- Zululand.", "Xhosa (African people) -- Folklore.", "Folk drama, Xhosa.", "Tales -- South Africa -- Transkei.", "Tales -- South Africa -- Zululand."], "publish_date": "1975", "publish_country": "enk", "series": ["Oxford library of African literature"], "by_statement": "Harold Scheub.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL16999406W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["2850339"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Xhosa ntsomi is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-clinche which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-10T15:44:54.379446"}}