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Seeing and knowing : understanding rock art with and without ethnography / edited by Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale, Benjamin Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- RARI monograph ; no. 3.
- Rock Art Research Institute monograph series ; third volume
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock paintings.
- Art, Prehistoric.
- Petroglyphs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It is largely through the work of David Lewis-Williams 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 various parts of the world. Seeing and Knowing explores how to understand and learn from rock art with and without ethnography. Because many of the chapters are based on solid fieldwork and ethnographic research, they offer a new body of work that provides the evidence for differentiation between knowing and simply seeing. This volume is unique in that it focuses exclusively on rock art and ethnography, and covers such a wide geographic range of examples on this topic, from southern Africa, to Scandinavia, to the United States. Many of the chapters explore studies in rock art regions of the world where variation and constancy can be observed and explored across distances both in space and in time. The editors have entitled the book Seeing and Knowing to echo Lewis-Williams' Believing and Seeing published almost thirty years ago; they say 'seeing' again because looking at rock art is and will always be central, and then what is seen when human eyes and minds look; they say 'knowing' in recognition that, by his work and by his example, archaeologists now know a little more than they knew before. Even so, as Lewis-Williams will be the first to say, we still know only a fraction.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-86814-716-9
- OCLC:
- 1016760148
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