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