Completion of the text edition "The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa. A self-portrait in their own language" by Oswin Köhler: Volumes 4.2, 5.1 and 5.2

《南部非洲赫布须曼人的世界》百科全书第4.2、5.1和5.2卷的手稿（5卷12部分）是以前由德国政府资助的项目的一部分，其中载有关于赫布须曼人文化和语言各方面的白话文。该项目的主要目的是使文本材料便于进一步研究。白话百科全书《南部非洲赫布须曼人的世界》的最后三卷（4.2、5.1、5.2）的出版结束了非洲学家研究的一个独特项目，即通过赫语文本尽可能多地记录关于赫语文化领域的全面百科知识。总体而言，Köhler的Khwe百科全书代表了关于Khwe文化遗产以及他们对世界的理解的异常丰富的文件集合，不仅应该向学者开放，而且应该向感兴趣的Khwe自己开放。为了使Khwe和科学界更好地了解其形成过程并使其更加透明，这些文本被翻译成英语，并补充了语法注释、详细的文本历史分析、简明的目录和广泛的词汇表。这些手稿为社会和文化人类学以及语言学的许多领域的进一步研究提供了有价值的和全面的原始材料。这包括比较科伊桑人的研究，最近对狩猎采集社会的关系本体论的研究，重建卡拉哈里盆地的区域历史，以及一般的非洲科学史，特别是纳米比亚的科学史。这些文本提供了以前对科伊桑和狩猎采集社会的比较研究所缺少的内容。

The manuscripts for volumes 4.2, 5.1 and 5.2 of the encyclopaedia "The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa" [Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute im südlichen Afrika] with vernacular texts on various aspects of Khwe culture and language (12 parts in five volumes) were produced as part of the the previous DFG-funded project. The primary aim of the project was to make the text material accessible for further research.The publication of the last three volumes (4.2, 5.1, 5.2) of the vernacular encyclopedia “The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa” brings to a close a unique project of Africanist research, namely the undertaking to document comprehensive encyclopedic knowledge on as many areas of Khwe culture as possible through Khwe texts.In its entirety, Köhler’s Khwe encyclopedia represents an exceptionally rich collection of documents on Khwe cultural heritage as well as on their understanding of and being in the world, which should be made accessible not only to scholars but also to interested Khwe themselves. For the purpose of better accessibility and transparency concerning the process of its formation for both, Khwe and the scientific community, the texts were translated into English, enriched with grammatical glossing, detailed texthistorical analyses, concise tables of contents and extensive glossaries.The manuscripts provide valuable and comprehensive source material for further research in many fields of social and cultural anthropology as well as linguistics. This includes comparative Khoisan studies, recent research on relational ontologies of hunter-gatherer societies, reconstructive regional history of the Kalahari Basin, as well as Africanist history of science in general and the history of science in Namibia in particular. The texts present content that is missing in previous comparative research on Khoisan and hunter-gatherer societies.