Seeing and knowing : understanding rock art with and without ethnography / edited by Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale, Benjamin Smith.

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English
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Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2010.
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xiv, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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  • "Most of the chapters in this book were given in a first form at ... [a conference held 21-24 April 2000 at Goudrivier Farm in the Waterberg, South Africa] and have been revised and enlarged for publication.""--P. 7-8.
  • Includes: List of publications by David Lewis-Williams.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781868145133 (pbk.)
  • 1868145131 (pbk.)
OCLC
699758433
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