Image-Makers - The Social Context of a Hunter-Gatherer Ritual

Informationen zum Autor David Lewis-Williams is Professor Emeritus in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he founded the Rock Art Research Institute in 1980. His books include The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins Art (2002), translated into numerous languages. Klappentext Explores the complex social relations of those who made hunter-gatherer rock art and why they made it. Zusammenfassung Providing insight into an image-making process that became extinct at the end of the nineteenth-century! this book shows that! far from being trivial! hunter-gatherer rock art was embedded in religion. It explores the complex social relations of those who made rock art and why they made it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A go-between; 2. An invisible narrative; 3. The narrative problem; 4. Patterns of participation; 5. Integrated idiosyncrasy; 6. Threads of light; 7. A State of !aia; 8. Images, image-makers and society; 9. San imagery today; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: David Lewis-Williams, David (University of the Witwaters Lewis-Williams, David (University of the Witwatersrand Lewis-Williams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108498210
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49821-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural studies: customs and traditions