Working with rock art : recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge / edited by Benjamin W. Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Smith, Benjamin, 1969-
• Helskog, Knut Arne, 1944-
• Morris, David, 1957-

Series:

• RARI monograph ; no. 4.
• Rock Art Research Institute monograph series ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Rock paintings.
• Rock paintings--Documentation.
• Interpretation (Philosophy) in art.
• Art, Prehistoric.
• Documentation.

Physical Description:

xv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This volume contains cutting edge 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--Internet.

Contents:

• On documenting rock art. Rock art management: juggling with paradoxes and compromises, and how to live with them / Anne-Sophie Hygen and Alexey E. Rogozhinskiy
• Expressing intangibles: a recording experience with /Xam rock engravings / Janette Deacon
• Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art / Terje Norsted
• The position of rock art: a consideration of how GIS can contribute to the understanding of the age and authorship of rock art / 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 / Dipuo W. Mokokwe
• The routine of documentation / Knut Helskog
• Prehistoric explorations in rock: investigations beneath and beyond engraved surfaces / Trond Lødøen.
• 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 and history: the significance of social change in interpreting rock art / David G. Pearce
• Symbols on stone: following in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquity / Juha Pentikäinen
• Animals and humans: metaphors of representation in south-central African rock art / Leslie F. Zubieta
• Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock art / David S. Whitley
• Rock art, shamanism and history: implications from a Central Asian case study / Andrzej Rozwadowski.
• On presenting rock art. Presenting rock art through digital film: recent Australian examples / Paul S.C. Taçon
• 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 site guiding and management / Janette Deacon and Neville Agnew
• Two related rock art conservation/education projects in Lesotho / Pieter Jolly
• Norwegian rock art in the past, the present, and the future / Gitte Kjeldsen
• The presentation of rock art in South Africa: old problems, new challenges / Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu
• Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: nature, culture and heritage in three celebrated national parks / Catherine Namono and Christopher Chippindale.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781868145454
• 186814545X
• 9781868145980
• 1868145980

OCLC:

828073023

Publisher Number:

99975437579