Seeing and Knowing
Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-61132-048-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Walnut Creek
United States
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61132-048-0 (9781611320480)
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Additional editions
Geoffrey Blundell | Christopher Chippindale | Benjamin Smith
Seeing and Knowing
Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography
E-Book
06/2016
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Geoffrey Blundell | Christopher Chippindale | Benjamin Smith
Seeing and Knowing
Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography
E-Book
06/2016
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Benjamin Smith, Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale
Content
1: Rock art with and without ethnography; 2: Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven's things; 3: Snake and veil: The rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa; 4: Cups and saucers: A preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, northern Botswana 1; 5: Art and authorship in southern African rock art: Examining the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area; 6: Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: A modern-day study from Tanzania; 7: Art and belief: The ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West; 8: Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming; 9: Layer by layer: Precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating; 10: From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces; 11: Composite creatures in european Palaeolithic art; 12: Thinking strings: On theory, shifts and conceptual issues in the study of Palaeolithic art; 13: Rock art without ethnography?; 14: Meaning cannot rest or stay the same; 15: Manica rock art in contemporary society; 16: Oral tradition, ethnography, and the practice of North American archaeology; 17: Beyond rock art: Archaeological interpretation and the shamanic frame