A painted ridge : : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / / David Mendel Witelson.

• Superior document: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology ; v.98
• VerfasserIn: Witelson, David Mendel,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Archaeopress Publishing Limited,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 pages)

This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: A PAINTED RIDGE -- The problem with 'sites' -- An overview of previous Maclear District rock art research -- Ethnographic analogy and San performance -- Documenting the MR sites -- Recording MR rock art -- Digital enhancements -- Enhancing the MEL ridge -- From observations to theory -- CHAPTER 2: PERFORMANCE THEORY -- Performance Studies and South African rock art research -- Performance Studies -- Performance -- Ritual -- Performativity -- The ethnography of performance -- A Kaluli séance -- San expressive culture and performances -- From theory to ethnography -- CHAPTER 3: DANCING AND PAINTING-A PERFORMATIVE DYAD? -- Trancing with friends, dancing with death -- Interactions during a trance dance -- The dancers and the women who clap and sing -- Dancers, participants, and the dance fire -- N|om seekers and masters -- Masters and other masters -- Dancers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Special curing ceremonies -- From dancing to painting -- CHAPTER 4: BEHIND THE SCENES -- The process behind image-making -- The four stages -- Acquisition of imagery -- Manufacture of paint -- Making rock paintings -- Using rock paintings -- From ritual process to interactive images -- CHAPTER 5: PAINTED AND IMPLIED INTERACTIONS -- Interactions between image-makers and the rock face -- Depressions and containment -- Cracks, steps and edges -- Idiosyncratic uses of the rock face -- From simple interaction to complex interactions -- Interactions between image-makers and images on the rock face -- Interactions between image-makers and animals -- Interactions between image-makers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Interactions between the viewers and the images -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: SHELTERED PERFORMANCES -- The criteria for image-making performances -- Who actually made the images?.

The ritual of image-making performances -- Reality, non-reality and the social construction of reality -- Image-makers and failure -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: COMING TO TERMS WITH DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES -- Limitations -- Insights from performance theory and future directions -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: SITE MEASUREMENTS -- APPENDIX B: SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS -- APPENDIX C: IMAGE COUNTS -- APPENDIX D: DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT PROCEDURES -- PROCEDURE 1 -- PROCEDURE 2 -- References.