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

纳米比亚的布瓦布瓦塔国家公园中的科维人属于以前的狩猎采集者群体，他们在南部非洲通常被称为“桑人”或“布须曼人”。他们的语言属于南非科伊桑语中的Khoe语系。前人类学研究兴趣以及与纳米比亚政治历史有关的原因是负责在1960年至1990年期间逃避许多人类学家的注意。这使得非洲学家Oswin Köhler（1911-1996）成为唯一一位在1990年纳米比亚独立前将其大部分学术研究致力于Khwe语言和文化的研究者。他追求出版白话文百科全书的宏伟目标，涵盖了Khwe文化的各个方面。计划出版的五卷中的头两卷分别于1989年和1991年出版。第三卷的手稿由科勒编写，并由申请人和Klaus Keuthmann在1997年共同编辑（Klaus Keuthmann已去世），第五卷未出版材料的学术评估和出版是本申请的主题（第四卷是在项目第一阶段编写出版的）。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。与第三卷不同，我们缺乏文本版本，翻译，评论，分析文本和图片，这些都是由Oswin Köhler本人授权的。为了符合死者的精神，因此有必要将科勒的工作与编辑的工作分开。虽然该版本旨在尽可能确保已出版各卷外观的连续性，但同时也旨在保证各个工作步骤的作者身份的透明度。为此，有必要审查和选择第四卷（在本项目阶段完成）和第五卷（在本项目阶段计划完成）的相关材料，以确定科勒编写的最先进的文本版本，并在可能的情况下，将他关于文本内容的决定置于背景之中。此外，详细的注释，文本的历史分析，柯勒之后关于Khwe文化的出版物的咨询，以及行间和英语翻译的准备都是必不可少的。柯勒在1959年至1992年期间对纳米比亚进行了20多次研究旅行，在种类和范围上都代表了Khwe文化和历史遗产的独特文件。除此之外，它的学术评估将产生重要的见解，比较科伊桑研究和卡拉哈里盆地地区的人口历史。拟议的研究小组将由与项目第一阶段相同的科伊桑研究专家组成。

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edited by the applicant and Klaus Keuthmann in 1997 posthumously.The scholarly assessment and publication of the unpublished material for volume V are the subject of the present application (volume IV was prepared for publication during the first project phase).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.