| Description |
1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Rock Art Research Institute monograph series ; 3rd v
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RARI monograph ; no. 3.
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| Note |
"Most of the chapters in this book were given in a first form at ... [a conference held 21-24 April 2000 at Goudrivier Farm in the Waterberg, South Africa] and have been revised and enlarged for publication."--Page 7-8." |
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Includes: List of publications by David Lewis-Williams. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rock art with and without ethnography / Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale and Benjamin Smith -- Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven's things / Sven Ouzman -- Snake an veil: the rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa / David Morris -- Cups and saucers: a preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, Botswana / Nick Walker -- Art and authorship in southern African rock art: examining the Limpopo-Shashe confluence area / Edward B. Eastwood, Geoffrey Blundell and Benjamin Smith -- Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: a modern-day study from Tanzania / Imogene L. Lim -- Art and belief: the ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West / David S. Whitly -- Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming / Lawrence L. Loendorf -- Layer by layer: precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating / Johannes Loubser -- From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces / Knut Helskog -- Composite creatures in European Palaeolithic art / Jean Clottes -- Thinking strings: on theory, shifts and conceptual issues in the study of Palaeolithic art / Margaret W. Conkey -- Rock art without ethnography?: a history of attitude to rock art and landscape at Frøysjøen, western Norway / Eva Walderhaug -- 'Meaning cannot rest or stay the same' / Patricia Vinnicombe -- Manica rock art in contemporary society / Tore Sætersdal -- Oral tradition, ethnography, and the practice of North American archaeology / Julie E. Francis and Lawrence L. Loendorf -- Beyond rock art: archaeological interpretation and the shamanic frame / Neil Price. |
| Summary |
This collection focuses on David Lewis-Williams and the extent of his personal impact on the field of rock art research. It is largely through his work that San rock art has come to be understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious beliefs and practices. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of Lewis-Williams' contribution, with particular emphasis on the use of theory and methodology drawn from ethnography that he has used with inspirational effect in understanding the meaning and context of rock art in va. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rock paintings.
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Rock paintings. |
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Art, Prehistoric.
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Art, Prehistoric. |
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Petroglyphs.
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Petroglyphs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Blundell, Geoffrey, editor.
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Chippindale, Christopher, 1951- editor.
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Smith, Benjamin, 1969- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Benjamin. Seeing and Knowing : Rock Art with and without Ethnography. Chicago : Wits University Press, ©2013 9781868145133 |
| ISBN |
9781868147168 (electronic book) |
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1868147169 (electronic book) |
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1868145131 |
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9781868145133 |
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