Bushman Art of the Drakensberg
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 20??
Category : Art, San
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Author :
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 20??
Category : Art, San
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Author : A. R. Willcox
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drakensberg Mountains
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2008*
Category : Art, San
ISBN : 9781919688749
Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0821444581
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.
Author : Patricia Vinnicombe
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
The cornerstone of current understanding of rock art of the San of Drakensberg First published in 1976, People of the Eland was the first major step away from the outsider's view upon San rock art that had dominated studies of rock art for nearly a century. The book, an account of the rock art of the San of the Drakensberg Range, was also about the mountain San themselves: their lives, their beliefs, their culture and their history during colonisation. The book not only brought an extraordinary and dynamic body of art to the attention of a global audience, but also helped to lay the foundations for a new generation of research into the meaning of prehistoric art. People of the Eland aimed to gain an insider's view of the rock art using San understandings of the world. While following this approach, it quickly became clear to Vinnicombe that the art was very far from simple depictions of daily life as had once seemed likely, but instead reflected the most deeply held San beliefs and symbols. This approach and this understanding has now become the standard for all those working with San rock art. Whilst this early knowledge of San art has been built upon considerably since 1976, People of the Eland remains a cornerstone of our current understanding. Reprinted here in full color, with the original artwork and photographs, People of the Eland remains a seminal work, the impact of which cannot be underestimated.
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
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Author : H. C. Woodhouse
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Art, Prehistoric
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Author : Gavin Anderson
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art, San
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Author : David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0500770468
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.
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
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This title takes us on an expedition into the lost valleys and up the silent rock shelter of the Drakensberg.