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Seeing and Knowing : Rock art with and without ethnography /
This collection focuses on David Lewis-Williams and the extent of his personal impact on the field of rock art research. It is largely through his work that San rock art has come to be understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious beliefs and practices. The...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This collection focuses on David Lewis-Williams and the extent of his personal impact on the field of rock art research. It is largely through his work that San rock art has come to be understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious beliefs and practices. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of Lewis-Williams' contribution, with particular emphasis on the use of theory and methodology drawn from ethnography that he has used with inspirational effect in understanding the meaning and context of rock art in va. |
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| Item Description: | Includes: List of publications by David Lewis-Williams. "Most of the chapters in this book were given in a first form at ... [a conference held 21-24 April 2000 at Goudrivier Farm in the Waterberg, South Africa] and have been revised and enlarged for publication."--Page 7-8." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations, maps. |
| ISBN: | 9781868147168 |