Image-Makers: The Social Context of a Hunter-Gatherer Ritual

by David Lewis-Williams and James David Lewis-Williams

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Rock-art images around the world are often difficult for us to decipher as modern viewers. Based on authentic records of the beliefs, rituals and daily life of the nineteenth-century San peoples, and of those who still inhabit the Kalahari Desert, this book adopts a new approach to hunter-gatherer rock art by placing the process of image-making within the social framework of production. Lewis-Williams shows how the San used this imagery not simply...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108498213

ISBN13:9781108498210

Release Date:July 2019

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:226 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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