José Manuel de Prada-Samper
JOSÉ MANUEL DE PRADA-SAMPER was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963 but his family soon moved to Barcelona. He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Barcelona and in 1989 he enrolled in the Comparative Literature Program at Columbia University in New York. After his chance discovery of the oral literature of the/xam hunter-gatherers, he has pursued the field of folklore studies. His first encounter with the Upper Karoo landscape, where the /xam have lived for millennia,...
