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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lewis-Williams, David (1934-....)
Titre(s) : Image makers [Texte imprimé] : the social context of a hunter-gatherer ritual / J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xix, 204 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ;
24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"While this approach has implications for rock imagery worldwide by virtue of the
principles it uncovers, I illustrate the social role of imagery in a hunter-gatherer
context by means of the southern African San, more popularly though contentiously
still known as 'Bushmen'. A major advantage of this exemplar is that researchers have
recourse to a remarkable archive of nineteenth-century verbatim southern San ethnography
in the original, though now extinct, Xam San language. In addition, there is the considerable
amount of related material garnered from the better known twentieth- and twenty-first-century
Kalahari San. It is therefore possible to go further in southern Africa than in some
other parts of the world where relevant ethnography is minimal, absent or of dubious
relevance and to elucidate the underlying social and cognitive framework of San imagery.
Certainly, I do not say that researchers should argue by simple analogy from San to
other rock arts. Each rock art is worthy of its own study; no one explanation can
cover all rock arts. Rather, the San example opens up lines of enquiry that may be
followed up in those different contexts. Researchers may find points of similarity
and, at the same time, difference; it is principles, rather than specifics, that matter.
In short, the southern African evidence points to the multi-stage process of San image-making
being embedded in, and contributing to the maintenance of, definable social distinctions
and networks"
Sujet(s) : Peinture pariétale -- Afrique du Sud
Art san -- Thèmes, motifs
San (peuple d'Afrique) -- Moeurs et coutumes
Indice(s) Dewey :
759.011 3 (23e éd.) = Art rupestre (peinture)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108498210. - ISBN 1108498213. - ISBN 9781108735469 (erroné). - ISBN 1108735460
(erroné). - ISBN 9781108581233 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45825390s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45825390
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