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Working with rock art : recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge / edited by Benjamin W. Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris.
- Title
- Working with rock art : recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge / edited by Benjamin W. Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris.
- Publication
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xv, 312 p : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume contains cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research." --
- Series Statement
- Rock Art Research Institute monograph series ; 4
- Uniform Title
- RARI monograph ; no. 4.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- On documenting rock art. Rock art management: juggling with paradoxes and compromises, and how to live with them / Anne-Sophie Hygen and Alexey E. Rogozhinskiy -- Expressing intangibles: a recording experience with /Xam rock engravings / Janette Deacon -- Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art / Terje Norsted -- The position of rock art: a consideration of how GIS can contribute to the understanding of the age and authorship of rock art / Thembi Russell -- Rock art in context: theoretical aspects of pragmatic data collections / Tilman Lenssen-Erz -- Representing southern African San rock art: a move towards digitisation / Dipuo W. Mokokwe -- The routine of documentation / Knut Helskog -- Prehistoric explorations in rock: investigations beneath and beyond engraved surfaces / Trond Lødøen --
- On understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge. Politics, ethnography and prehistory: in search of an "informed" approach to Finnish and Karelian rock art / Antti Lahelma -- Ethnography and history: the significance of social change in interpreting rock art / David G. Pearce -- Symbols on stone: following in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquity / Juha Pentikäinen -- Animals and humans: metaphors of representation in south-central African rock art / Leslie F. Zubieta -- Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock art / David S. Whitley -- Rock art, shamanism and history: implications from a Central Asian case study / Andrzej Rozwadowski --
- On presenting rock art. Presenting rock art through digital film: recent Australian examples / Paul S.C. Taçon -- Rock art at present in the past / Lindsay Weiss -- The importance of Wildebeest Kuil: "a hill with a future, a hill with a past" / David Morris -- Theoretical approaches and practical training for rock art site guiding and management / Janette Deacon and Neville Agnew -- Two related rock art conservation/education projects in Lesotho / Pieter Jolly -- Norwegian rock art in the past, the present, and the future / Gitte Kjeldsen -- The presentation of rock art in South Africa: old problems, new challenges / Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu -- Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: nature, culture and heritage in three celebrated national parks / Catherine Namono and Christopher Chippindale.
- ISBN
- 9781868145454
- 186814545X
- LCCN
- ^^2012526426
- OCLC
- 828073023
- SCSB-11821367
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library