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Working with rock art : recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge / edited by Benjamin W. Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- RARI monograph ; 4.
- Rock Art Research Institute monograph series ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock paintings.
- Rock paintings--Documentation.
- Interpretation (Philosophy) in art.
- Art, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.
- Contents:
- ON DOCUMENTING ROCK ART. Rock art management: juggling with paradoxes and comUpromises, and how to live with them / Anne-Sophie Hygen
- Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam Rock Engravings / Janette Deacon
- Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art / Terje Norsted
- The spatial context of rock art sites: what might GIS have to offer in the absence of a temporal resolution of rock paintings? / Thembi Russell
- Rock art in context - theoretical aspects of pragmatic data collections / Tilman Lenssen-Erz
- Representing southern African San rock art: a move towards digitisation / D.Winnie Mokokwe
- The routine of documentation / Knut Helskog
- Prehistoric explorations in rock - investigations beneath and beyond carved surfaces / Trond L©ıd©ıen.
- ON UNDERSTANDING ROCK ART USING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE. Politics, ethnography and prehistory: in search of an 'informed' approach to Finnish and Karelian rock art / Antti Lahelma
- Ethnography, history, rock art: the significance of social change in interpreting rock art / David Pearce
- Symbols on stone - in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquity / Juha Pentik{tilde}inen
- Animals and humans: metaphors of representation in south-central African rock art / Leslie Zubieta
- Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock art / David Whitley
- Shamanism, rock art and history: implications from a Central Asian case study / Andrzej Rozwadowski.
- ON PRESENTING ROCK ART. Presenting rock art through digital film / Paul Ta{dot}on
- Rock art at present in the past / Lindsay Weiss
- The importance of Wildebeest Kuil: 'a hill with a future, a hill with a past' / David Morris
- Theoretical approaches and practical training for rock art tourist guiding and management / Janette Deacon and Neville Agnew
- Two related rock art conservation/education projects in Lesotho / Pieter Jolly
- Scandinavian rock art in the past - the present - and the future / Gitte Kjeldsen
- The presentation of rock art in South Africa: what are the new challenges? / Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu
- Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: nature, culture and rock-art in three celebrated national parks / Catherine Namono and Christopher Chippindale.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-86814-598-0
- OCLC:
- 1016844619
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