Author: M. Helen Tongue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Bushman Paintings
Author: M. Helen Tongue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushmen Rock Art
Author: David Lewis-Williams
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500770468
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Goes to the heart of contemporary arguments about the "primitive" and the "modern" minds, and draws new social, anthropological, and ethnographic conclusions about the nature of ancient societies. How did ancient peoples—those living before written records—think? Were their thinking patterns fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa—among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth—became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors and were viewed as either irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague Sam Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. This is possible because we possess comprehensive transcriptions, made in the nineteenth century, of interviews with San informants who were shown copies of the art and gave their interpretations of it. Using the analogy of the Rosetta Stone, the authors move back and forth between these San texts and the rock art, teasing out the subtle meanings behind both. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500770468
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Goes to the heart of contemporary arguments about the "primitive" and the "modern" minds, and draws new social, anthropological, and ethnographic conclusions about the nature of ancient societies. How did ancient peoples—those living before written records—think? Were their thinking patterns fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa—among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth—became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors and were viewed as either irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague Sam Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. This is possible because we possess comprehensive transcriptions, made in the nineteenth century, of interviews with San informants who were shown copies of the art and gave their interpretations of it. Using the analogy of the Rosetta Stone, the authors move back and forth between these San texts and the rock art, teasing out the subtle meanings behind both. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth.
San Rock Art
Author: J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444581
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444581
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
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.
Bushman Rock Art
Author: Tim Forssman
Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN: 9781920143558
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bushman Rock Art is the first of its kind. Never before has rock art been so dissected and presented in such an easy-to-understand, interpretive manner, exploring the deep symbolic meaning behind the art and what these powerful images meant to Bushman artists.
Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN: 9781920143558
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bushman Rock Art is the first of its kind. Never before has rock art been so dissected and presented in such an easy-to-understand, interpretive manner, exploring the deep symbolic meaning behind the art and what these powerful images meant to Bushman artists.
The Rock Paintings of the Chumash
Author: Campbell Grant
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Rock Art of Southern Africa
Author: J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521244602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521244602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
African Rock Art
Author: David Coulson
Publisher: Harry N Abrams B.V.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Publisher: Harry N Abrams B.V.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Origin of the Bushmen and the Rock Paintings of South Africa
Author: Samuel Patton Impey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The White Shaman Mural
Author: Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477310304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477310304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.
Bushmen
Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.