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A Painted Ridge

This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Witelson, David Mendel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown : Archaeopress, 2019.
Colección:Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: A PAINTED RIDGE -- The problem with 'sites' -- An overview of previous Maclear District rock art research -- Ethnographic analogy and San performance -- Documenting the MR sites -- Recording MR rock art -- Digital enhancements -- Enhancing the MEL ridge -- From observations to theory -- CHAPTER 2: PERFORMANCE THEORY -- Performance Studies and South African rock art research -- Performance Studies -- Performance -- Ritual -- Performativity -- The ethnography of performance -- A Kaluli séance 
505 8 |a San expressive culture and performances -- From theory to ethnography -- CHAPTER 3: DANCING AND PAINTING-A PERFORMATIVE DYAD? -- Trancing with friends, dancing with death -- Interactions during a trance dance -- The dancers and the women who clap and sing -- Dancers, participants, and the dance fire -- N|om seekers and masters -- Masters and other masters -- Dancers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Special curing ceremonies -- From dancing to painting -- CHAPTER 4: BEHIND THE SCENES -- The process behind image-making -- The four stages -- Acquisition of imagery -- Manufacture of paint 
505 8 |a Making rock paintings -- Using rock paintings -- From ritual process to interactive images -- CHAPTER 5: PAINTED AND IMPLIED INTERACTIONS -- Interactions between image-makers and the rock face -- Depressions and containment -- Cracks, steps and edges -- Idiosyncratic uses of the rock face -- From simple interaction to complex interactions -- Interactions between image-makers and images on the rock face -- Interactions between image-makers and animals -- Interactions between image-makers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Interactions between the viewers and the images -- Summary 
505 8 |a CHAPTER 6: SHELTERED PERFORMANCES -- The criteria for image-making performances -- Who actually made the images? -- The ritual of image-making performances -- Reality, non-reality and the social construction of reality -- Image-makers and failure -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: COMING TO TERMS WITH DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES -- Limitations -- Insights from performance theory and future directions -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: SITE MEASUREMENTS -- APPENDIX B: SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS -- APPENDIX C: IMAGE COUNTS -- APPENDIX D: DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT PROCEDURES -- PROCEDURE 1 -- PROCEDURE 2 -- References 
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