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When Mary Lange asked a group of Upington women, “What do you know about the Water Snake?”, this triggered a set of lyrical short stories. The women’s response to her question formed the basis for the Water Stories, here published with a set of original drawings by regional artist Betta Steyn.
Mary Lange coordinates the ARROW SA (Art: A Resource for Reconciliation Over the World) Project . Her research interests include oral narratives, visual anthropology, and theatre in development Lange has facilitated the collection and translation from Afrikaans to English of the stories of six women from the Upington environment, all of whom work and live alongside the river and who know its stories. The result is a valuable and enduring contribution to southern African cultural studies, a resource to which educators, researchers and scholars will be able to refer to.