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Author : Herbert C. Woodhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Bushman Art of Southern Africa written by Herbert C. Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521244602
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Rock Art of Southern Africa written by J. David Lewis-Williams and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-11-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Forssman
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781920143558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Bushman Rock Art written by Tim Forssman and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bushman Rock Art is the first of its kind. Never before has rock art been so dissected and presented in such an easy-to-understand, interpretive manner, exploring the deep symbolic meaning behind the art and what these powerful images meant to Bushman artists.
Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444581
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book San Rock Art written by J.D. Lewis-Williams and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery. Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.
Author : David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770468
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushmen Rock Art written by David Lewis-Williams and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goes to the heart of contemporary arguments about the "primitive" and the "modern" minds, and draws new social, anthropological, and ethnographic conclusions about the nature of ancient societies. How did ancient peoples—those living before written records—think? Were their thinking patterns fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa—among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth—became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors and were viewed as either irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague Sam Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. This is possible because we possess comprehensive transcriptions, made in the nineteenth century, of interviews with San informants who were shown copies of the art and gave their interpretations of it. Using the analogy of the Rosetta Stone, the authors move back and forth between these San texts and the rock art, teasing out the subtle meanings behind both. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth.
Author : H. C. Woodhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Bushman Art of Southern Africa written by H. C. Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Siyakha Mguni
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868147770
Total Pages : 234 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 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siyakha Mguni’s personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. 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.
Author : Bradford Keeney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439175411
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Bushman Way of Tracking God written by Bradford Keeney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “the Indiana Jones of the spiritual world” (Utne Reader)—a groundbreaking look at original spirituality with a unique and all-encompassing approach to life that comes from the world’s most ancient religion. The Kalahari Bushmen are the keepers of the world’s oldest living culture. In spite of colossal challenges and never-ending crises, they have survived for over 60,000 years with joy and peace—yet their spiritual teachings, the source of their enduring wisdom, have never been fully presented. For the first time, these ancient oral traditions have been put down onto paper taking you through the veil of original spirituality, connecting the fragments of world religions to a source that is unlike any other. Through this wisdom, you can find the deepest meaning, fullest purpose, and highest joy in life. The Bushman’s Way to Tracking God is articulated through twelve original mysteries, including: activating the non-subtle universal life force (what the Bushmen call n/om), heightening emotional experience, vibratory interaction, direct downloading and absorption of sacred knowledge, extraordinary healing, activation of the ecstatic “pump,” spontaneous ways of rejuvenation, attending the spiritual classrooms, so-called telepathy, an uncommon range of mystical experiences, and last but not least, total bliss.
Author : Bradford Keeney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776202
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Bushman Shaman written by Bradford Keeney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s journey to becoming a Bushman shaman and healer and how this tradition relates to shamanic practices around the world • Explores the Bushmen’s ecstatic shaking and dancing practices • Written by the first non-Bushman to become fully initiated into their healing and spiritual ways In Bushman Shaman, Bradford Keeney details his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen, regarded by some scholars as the oldest living culture on earth. Keeney sought out the Bushmen while in South Africa as a visiting professor of psychotherapy. He had known of the Kalahari “trance dance,” wherein the dancers’ bodies shake uncontrollably as part of the healing ceremony. Keeney was drawn to this tradition in the hope that it might explain and provide a forum for his own ecstatic “shaking,” which he had first experienced at the age of 19 and had tried to suppress and hide throughout his adult life. For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia, until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. Through his rediscovery of the “rope to God” in a Bushman shaman dream, he offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. In Bushman Shaman Keeney also reveals his work with shamans from Japan, Tibet, Bali, Thailand, Australia, and North and South America, providing new understandings of other forms of shamanic spiritual expression and integrating the practices of all these traditions into a sacred circle of one truth.
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Images of Power written by J. David Lewis-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul John Myburgh
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143529919
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Bushman Winter has Come written by Paul John Myburgh and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of exodus, the inevitable journey of the last of the First People, as they leave the Great Sand Face and head for the modern world and cultural oblivion. Paul John Myburgh spent seven years with the 'People of the Great Sand Face', a group of /Gwikwe Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert. They were years of physical and spiritual immersion into a way of life of which only an echo remains in living memory. But all does not end there. In The Bushman Winter Has Come, the author imagines a continuing journey towards a place where we may, once again, know who we are in the context of our life on this earth ... towards a time when we may answer the /Gwikwe's morning greeting, Tsamkwa/tge? (Are your eyes nicely open?) with a confident Yes.
Author : Andrew Bank
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781770130913
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Bushmen in a Victorian World written by Andrew Bank and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Bleek was fascinated by African languages and set out to make sense of a complex and alien Bushman tongue. At first Lucy Lloyd worked as his assistant, but soon proved to be so gifted a linguist and empathetic a listener that she created a monumental record of Bushman culture. Their informants were a colorful cast. The teenager, /A!kunta, taught Bleek and Lloyd their first Bushman words and sentences. The wise old man and masterful storyteller, //Kabbo, opened their eyes to a richly imaginative world of myth and legend. The young man, Dia!kwain, explained traditional beliefs about sorcery, while his friend #Kasin spoke of Bushman medicines and poisons. The treasures of Bushman culture were most fully revealed in conversations with a middle-aged man known as /Han=kass'o, who told of dances, songs and the meaning of images on rocks. The human histories and relationships involved in this unique collaboration across cultures are explored in full for the first time in this remarkable narrative.
Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Protea Boekhuis
ISBN 13 : 9781869194130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (941 download)
Download or read book The White Bushman written by Peter Stark and published by Protea Boekhuis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Stark is the legendary white Bushman who writes about his experiences in the former German South West Africa.
Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449214206
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Covenant written by James A. Michener and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of 2; The story begins 1500 years ago. The Bushmen are facing a crisis. the beautiful lake, long the center of their lives, is drying up, and they must move across a hostile African desert to seek better conditions.
Author : J. D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315423766
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Myth and Meaning written by J. D. Lewis-Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, uses ethnographic, archival, and archaeological lines of research to understand San-Bushman mythological stories. From this, he establishes a more nuanced theory of the role of myths in cultures worldwide.
Author : M. Helen Tongue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bushman Paintings written by M. Helen Tongue and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. J. Deacon
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864864178
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Human Beginnings in South Africa written by H. J. Deacon and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stone Age is now beginning to be recognised as vital in establishing who we are and where we have come from. This period has long been neglected.
