Working with rock art : : recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge / / edited by Benjamin W. Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris.
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 theoretic...
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| Superior document: | Rock Art Research Institute monograph series ; 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Johannesburg, South Africa : : Wits University Press,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RARI monograph ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- ON DOCUMENTING ROCK ART. Rock art management: juggling with paradoxes and comUpromises, and how to live with them / Anne-Sophie Hygen
- Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam Rock Engravings / Janette Deacon
- Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art / Terje Norsted
- The spatial context of rock art sites: what might GIS have to offer in the absence of a temporal resolution of rock paintings? / 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 / D.Winnie Mokokwe
- The routine of documentation / Knut Helskog
- Prehistoric explorations in rock - investigations beneath and beyond carved surfaces / Trond Lden.
- 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, history, rock art: the significance of social change in interpreting rock art / David Pearce
- Symbols on stone - in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquity / Juha Pentik{tilde}inen
- Animals and humans: metaphors of representation in south-central African rock art / Leslie Zubieta
- Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock art / David Whitley
- Shamanism, rock art and history: implications from a Central Asian case study / Andrzej Rozwadowski.
- ON PRESENTING ROCK ART. Presenting rock art through digital film / Paul Ta{dot}on
- 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 tourist guiding and management / Janette Deacon and Neville Agnew
- Two related rock art conservation/education projects in Lesotho / Pieter Jolly
- Scandinavian rock art in the past - the present - and the future / Gitte Kjeldsen
- The presentation of rock art in South Africa: what are the new challenges? / Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu
- Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: nature, culture and rock-art in three celebrated national parks / Catherine Namono and Christopher Chippindale.