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.
Temas:
Rock paintings > South Africa > Maclear.
San (African people) > Antiquities.
Rock paintings
San (African people) > Antiquities
South Africa > Maclear
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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