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The Problem of Metaphor: Tropic Logic in Cattle-Killing Prophecies and their Afterlives

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‘Cattle are the race, they being dead the race dies’: this is how the Bomvana chief Moni warned the Xhosa king Sarhili against killing his cattle amidst prophecies promising that killing cattle wou...

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