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Author : Peter S. Garlake
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Structure and Meaning in the Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe written by Peter S. Garlake and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. S. Mlambo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021707
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A History of Zimbabwe written by A. S. Mlambo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.
Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313059578
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Prehistoric Art written by Günter Berghaus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functions of prehistoric paintings and sculptures. This new collection of essays explores these insights, gathering the observations of eight experts from a variety of disciplines, and examining some of the social and spiritual functions of a variety of artistic genres ranging from 40,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. These insights, which derive from evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology, argue collectively that prehistoric art was a culture-specific form of communication that should be interpreted in the social context of early hunger-gatherer societies and should not be measured with the criteria and paradigms of modern art. Essential reading for anyone interested in prehistoric art or its cultural implications, this volume represents a bold step forward in the research and analysis of the very first artists.
Author : Peter S. Garlake
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ISBN 13 : 9780295974804
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Hunter's Vision written by Peter S. Garlake and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rock paintings of Zimbabwe are perhaps the least-known artistic treasures of Africa. In their abundance, variety, complexity, accuracy of observation, delicacy of execution and richness of symbolism, they are unsurpassed by any prehistoric art. This book, through detailed comparative analyses of a large number of these paintings, never before studied or illustrated, shows how the subjects were selected, how the paintings were executed, and the conventions that determined their styles and forms. The paintings are thousands of years old, and the culture of the Stone Age hunters and foragers who created them was extinguished so long ago that it does not survive even as a distant memory. However, through an understanding of the basic tenets of San societies that have been recorded or still survive in the Kalahari Desert and its fringes, the author has reconstructed something of the significance of the paintings to their creators. He places them in the context of the life and beliefs of the society that created them, explores the perceptions and ideas that they represent and interprets something of their symbolism.
Author : Eugene C. Burt
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Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Art written by Eugene C. Burt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South African Archaeological Society
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Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Goodwin Series written by South African Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Ethnoarts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Siyakha Mguni
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868147770
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Termites of the Gods written by Siyakha Mguni and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as ?formlings?. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botantical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings. It offers an innovative methodological approach for understanding subject matter in San rock art that is not easily recognisable, and will be an invaluable reference book to students and scholars in rock art studies and archaeology.
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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The South African Archaeological Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. O. Ranger
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Chingaira Makoni's Head written by T. O. Ranger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane I. Guyer
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Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Women's Farming and Present Ethnography written by Jane I. Guyer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joern Stoevring
Publisher : Joern Stoevring
ISBN 13 : 8797284912
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)
Download or read book New Approach to Cave Art in Zimbabwe written by Joern Stoevring and published by Joern Stoevring. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material for the book is based on the four large caves at Musambura, Northeast of HARARE with a comparison material from the other large caves and boulders in Zimbabwe. It reassesses half a century of research on cave art in the country and presents a new approach for the interpretation of the old images. The high pic photographic material consists of 186 high pic images subjected to various imaging software. The approach is based on the Cosmology of the San as expressed in the large and majestic caves. It enables a more sophisticated analysis than earlier by stratification of the material into traditions and periods: - The Ancient San, from the last Ice Age to the Humid Period - The San, from the End of the Humid Period until the arrival of the Early BaNtu - The Late San from the arrival of the Early BaNtu until the Demise of the Late San and - The Demise of the Late San The analysis discusses and revises several assumptions and interpretations of earlier cave art contributions especially professor Peter Garlake as well as the contemporary contributions from New Animism (Descola, Harvey, Willerslev). The results of the book are used in the local conservation efforts by public authorities in Zimbabwe.
Author : Lori Hager
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134840101
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Women In Human Evolution written by Lori Hager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the first of it's kind, examines the role of women paleontologists and archaeologists in a field traditionally dominated by men. Women researchers in this field, have questioned many of the assumptions and developmental scenarios advanced by male scientists. As a result of such efforts, women have forged a more central role in models of human development and have radically altered the way in which human evolution is perceived. This history of the feminist critique of science, is of profound significance and will be of interest to all those who work in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and human biology.
Author : Roger Hewitt
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776141261
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San written by Roger Hewitt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive, arguably one of the most important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africas first people. Initially appearing in a now rare 1986 edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral thesis on which the book is based became the catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the 'deep structures' with resonances in other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators. Hewitt's text remains the only comprehensive and detailed study of /Xam narrative, and it has become itself the object of study by researchers and PhD candidates in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. This new edition at last makes Hewitt's important work more widely available. It will be a welcome addition to the recently burgeoning literature on the place of the /Xam hunter-gatherers in the complex history of South African culture and society.
Author : Henrietta Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000324753
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Those Who Play With Fire written by Henrietta Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational gender categories permeate African systems of thought and ritual practices. Thus, the book provides a powerful framework with which to evaluate previous ethnographic material on Africa. In addition, Those Who Play With Fire presents a broad range of new case studies - of hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists and pastoralists - revealing the varied and complex ways in which African ideas and ideals of what it means to be 'male' and 'female' broadly inform and give meaning to a wide range of transformative rituals.
Author : Edward B. Eastwood
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864866790
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Capturing the Spoor written by Edward B. Eastwood and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to discuss the rock art of cultural groups other than the San. It gives the rock art of South Africa a wider context and greater depth than has a hitherto been apparent.
Author : Gilbert Pwiti
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Caves, Monuments and Texts written by Gilbert Pwiti and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
