Author: Kuru Cultural Project (D'Kar)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Contemporary Bushman Art of Southern Africa
Author: Kuru Cultural Project (D'Kar)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Contemporary Bushman Art of Southern Africa
Author: C. Scheepers
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Contemporary Bushman Art of Southern Africa
Author: J. C. Scheepers
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Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Publisher:
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Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Contemporary Bushman Art of Southern Africa
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Category : Art, San
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Art, San
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Bushman Art of Southern Africa
Author: Herbert C. Woodhouse
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Bushman Art of Southern Africa
Author: H. C. Woodhouse
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Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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
Bushman Art
Author: Hugo Obermaier
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
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.