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San Rock Art
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Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
San Rock Art written by J.D. Lewis-Williams and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Art categories.
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery. Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.
The Essential Guide To San Rock Art
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Author : Anne Solomon
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 1998
The Essential Guide To San Rock Art written by Anne Solomon and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art, Prehistoric categories.
Richly illustrated in colour and black and white, this guide provides a clear understanding of a cultural treasure.
Images Of Power
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Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Images Of Power written by J. David Lewis-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art, Primitive categories.
This text draws on records of San beliefs which were recorded verbatim during the 1870s, as well as on research done with the living Kalahari San, to reveal the true meaning of San rock art. Essentially the work of medicine people, or shamans, these pieces of art depict trance visions and symbols of supernatural potency. The records of San beliefs - coupled with neuropsychological research on trance states - have provided an understanding of such issues as the strange relationships between human beings and animals, and puzzling geometric patterns. The explanations are set alongside detailed copies of rock paintings and engravings.
A Painted Ridge Rock Art And Performance In The Maclear District Eastern Cape Province South Africa
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Author : David Mendel Witelson
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2019-06-27
A Painted Ridge Rock Art And Performance In The Maclear District Eastern Cape Province South Africa written by David Mendel Witelson and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Social Science categories.
This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference.
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Seeing And Knowing
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Author : Geoffrey Blundell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Seeing And Knowing written by Geoffrey Blundell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Art categories.
The purpose of Seeing and Knowing is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams’ contribution to rock art research by emphasizing theory and methodology drawn from ethnography. Contributors explore what it means to understand and learn from rock art, and a contrast is drawn between those sites where it is possible to provide a modern, ethnographic context, and those sites where it is not. This is the definitive guide to the interplay between ethnography and rock art interpretation, and is an ideal resource for students and researchers alike.
Working With Rock Art
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Author : Benjamin Smith
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Working With Rock Art written by Benjamin Smith and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. 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.
Capturing The Spoor
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Author : Edward B. Eastwood
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 2006
Capturing The Spoor written by Edward B. Eastwood and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
The first book of its kind to discuss the rock art of cultural groups other than the San. It gives the rock art of South Africa a wider context and greater depth than has a hitherto been apparent.
Visionary Animal
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Author : Renaud Ego
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Visionary Animal written by Renaud Ego and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Social Science categories.
An illustrated collection that takes stock of current knowledge and proposes a new way of reading indigenous art For thousands of years, nomadic hunter-gatherers assigned a fundamental role to the visualization of the animals who shared their lives. Some, such as the Cape eland, the largest of antelopes, were the object of a fascinated gaze, as though the graceful markings and shapes of their bodies were the key to secret knowledge safeguarded by the animals’ unsettling silence. Renaud Ego posits that the artists sought to steal the animals’ secret through an act of rendering visible a vitality that remained hidden beneath appearances. In this process, the San themselves became the visionary animal who, possessing the gift of making pictures, would acquire far-seeing powers. Thanks to the singular effectiveness of their visual art, they could make intellectual contact with the world in order better to think and,ultimately, to act. They gained access to the full dimension of their human condition through painting scenes that functioned like visual contracts with spiritual and ancestral powers. Their art is an act that seeks to preserve the wholeness of existence through a respect for the relationships linking all beings, both real and imaginary,who partake of it. The fundamentally ecological dimension of this message confers on San art its universality and contemporary relevance.Visionary Animal is a translation of L’Animal voyant, published in France in 2015. This rich collection of essays is beautifully illustrated with the author’s photographs of rock art from across southern Africa.
Nqabayo S Nomansland
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Author : Geoffrey Blundell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Nqabayo S Nomansland written by Geoffrey Blundell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art, San categories.