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

在纳米比亚的布瓦瓦塔国家公园里，赫威人属于前狩猎采集者，在非洲南部通常被称为“桑人”或“布须曼人”。他们的语言属于南非科伊桑族的科伊桑语系。在1960年至1990年期间，以前的人类学研究兴趣以及与纳米比亚政治史有关的原因使Khwe人没有引起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年纳米比亚独立之前将大部分学术研究投入到Khwe语（他的正字法：kxo<e:1>）语言和文化研究的研究者。他有一个雄心勃勃的目标，那就是出版一本白话文的百科全书，涵盖Khwe文化的各个方面。计划共出版五册的前两册分别于1989年和1991年出版。第三卷的手稿由Köhler准备，并于1997年由申请人和Klaus Keuthmann在死后共同编辑。本申请的主题是学术评价和出版第五卷未出版材料（第四卷是为在第一个项目阶段出版而编写的）。Köhler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通信，研究报告等。与第三卷不同的是，我们没有经过Oswin Köhler本人授权的文本版本、翻译、评论、分析文本和图片。因此，为了遵从死者的精神，有必要将Köhler自己的任务与编辑的任务分开。虽然版本的目的是尽可能确保出版卷的外观的连续性，但同时也旨在保证每个工作步骤的作者身份的透明度。为此目的，有必要审查和选择第四卷（在当前项目阶段完成的）和第五卷（为此处申请的项目阶段计划完成的）的有关材料，以确定Köhler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联系起来。此外，详细的注释、文本历史分析、Köhler之后关于Khwe文化的出版物的咨询，以及准备行间和英文翻译都是必不可少的。Köhler在1959年至1992年期间对纳米比亚进行的20多次研究旅行中汇编了Khwe材料，这些材料在种类和范围上都是Khwe文化和历史遗产的独特文件。除此之外，它的学术评估将对科伊桑人的比较研究和喀拉哈里盆地地区的人口历史产生重要的见解。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edited by the applicant and Klaus Keuthmann in 1997 posthumously.The scholarly assessment and publication of the unpublished material for volume V are the subject of the present application (volume IV was prepared for publication during the first project phase).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.