J D Lewis‐william
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J D Lewis‐william |
| GIVEN NAMES | J D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis‐william |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAM J D L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 509 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Three nineteenth-century Southern African San myths: A Study in Meaning
Indigenous significances of nineteenth-century |Xam San folktales are hard to determine from narrative structure alone. When verbatim, original-language records are available, meaning can be elicited by probing beneath the narrative and exploring the connotations of highly significant words and phrases that imply meanings and associations that narrators take for granted but that nonetheless contextualize the tales. Analyses of this kind show that…
Three-Dimensional Puzzles: Southern African and Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution, David Lewis-Williams reflects on the major reinterpretation of southern African rock art and Upper Palaeolithic art that took place in the 1970s and 1…
On Vision and Power in the Neolithic: Evidence From the Decorated Monuments
Discovering Southern African Rock Art
The rock paintings and engravings of southern Africa have long been considered obscure, yet research has managed since to piece together that message, and we now know that this beautiful and detailed art tells us about the religious experiences of the San (bushmen) who made it: centuries ago the San believed that the art carried messages from the spirit world. This book traces the story behind that research, how it started, its failures and succe…
On Palaeolithic Art and the Neuropsychological Model
On Neuropsychology and Shamanism in Rock Art
The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic Art [and Comments and Reply]
A dream of eland: An unexplored component of San shamanism and rock art
Accounts of San (Bushman) shamanistic rock art have concentrated on the role of the trance dance in the generation of the paintings. This paper considers the role of dreaming to achieve ends similar to those served by the dance. Animal behaviour was depicted to suggest trance‐dreaming, as it was to suggest other shamanistic experiences. Sleeping eland probably represent San shamans in trance‐dreaming
Cognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art Research
On the Social Context of Southern African Rock Art
Believing and Seeing. Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings
More on San Rock Art
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
This paper suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding southern San rock art. The traditional explanations have been either innatist or functionalist. To escape the tautology of the former and the restrictions of the latter it is suggested that the articulation between the art and the social relations of production be sought. This articulation was expressed in the activities of medicine men, whose symbolic work acted upon the reproduct…
Believing and Seeing: Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings
Ethnography and Iconography: Aspects of Southern San Thought and Art
Eland Hunting Rituals among Northern and Southern San Groups: Striking Similarities
Opening ParagraphThe prominence of the eland in San thought is suggested by the frequency with which this antelope was depicted in rock paintings and also by the myths and rituals in which it features. In this paper we describe and compare certain eland beliefs and hunting rituals drawn from two San groups, the !Kung of Botswana and the now extinct \Xam of the Cape Province. The relevance of material obtained from the northern !Kung to the explic…
Led by the nose: Observations on the supposed use of southern San rock art in rain‐making rituals
1977). Led by the nose: observations on the supposed use of southern San rock art in rain‐making rituals. African Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 155-160
Superpositioning in a Sample of Rock-Paintings from the Barkly East District
The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic Art [and Comments and Reply]
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
This paper suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding southern San rock art. The traditional explanations have been either innatist or functionalist. To escape the tautology of the former and the restrictions of the latter it is suggested that the articulation between the art and the social relations of production be sought. This articulation was expressed in the activities of medicine men, whose symbolic work acted upon the reproduct…
Ethnography and Iconography: Aspects of Southern San Thought and Art
Eland Hunting Rituals among Northern and Southern San Groups: Striking Similarities
Opening ParagraphThe prominence of the eland in San thought is suggested by the frequency with which this antelope was depicted in rock paintings and also by the myths and rituals in which it features. In this paper we describe and compare certain eland beliefs and hunting rituals drawn from two San groups, the !Kung of Botswana and the now extinct \Xam of the Cape Province. The relevance of material obtained from the northern !Kung to the explic…
On Vision and Power in the Neolithic: Evidence From the Decorated Monuments
Superpositioning in a Sample of Rock-Paintings from the Barkly East District
A dream of eland: An unexplored component of San shamanism and rock art
Accounts of San (Bushman) shamanistic rock art have concentrated on the role of the trance dance in the generation of the paintings. This paper considers the role of dreaming to achieve ends similar to those served by the dance. Animal behaviour was depicted to suggest trance‐dreaming, as it was to suggest other shamanistic experiences. Sleeping eland probably represent San shamans in trance‐dreaming
Cognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art Research
On Neuropsychology and Shamanism in Rock Art
Discovering Southern African Rock Art
The rock paintings and engravings of southern Africa have long been considered obscure, yet research has managed since to piece together that message, and we now know that this beautiful and detailed art tells us about the religious experiences of the San (bushmen) who made it: centuries ago the San believed that the art carried messages from the spirit world. This book traces the story behind that research, how it started, its failures and succe…
Led by the nose: Observations on the supposed use of southern San rock art in rain‐making rituals
1977). Led by the nose: observations on the supposed use of southern San rock art in rain‐making rituals. African Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 155-160
Three nineteenth-century Southern African San myths: A Study in Meaning
Indigenous significances of nineteenth-century |Xam San folktales are hard to determine from narrative structure alone. When verbatim, original-language records are available, meaning can be elicited by probing beneath the narrative and exploring the connotations of highly significant words and phrases that imply meanings and associations that narrators take for granted but that nonetheless contextualize the tales. Analyses of this kind show that…
Three-Dimensional Puzzles: Southern African and Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution, David Lewis-Williams reflects on the major reinterpretation of southern African rock art and Upper Palaeolithic art that took place in the 1970s and 1…
On Palaeolithic Art and the Neuropsychological Model
Believing and Seeing. Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings
On the Social Context of Southern African Rock Art
Superpositioning in a Sample of Rock-Paintings from the Barkly East District
Led by the nose: Observations on the supposed use of southern San rock art in rain‐making rituals
1977). Led by the nose: observations on the supposed use of southern San rock art in rain‐making rituals. African Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 155-160
Eland Hunting Rituals among Northern and Southern San Groups: Striking Similarities
Opening ParagraphThe prominence of the eland in San thought is suggested by the frequency with which this antelope was depicted in rock paintings and also by the myths and rituals in which it features. In this paper we describe and compare certain eland beliefs and hunting rituals drawn from two San groups, the !Kung of Botswana and the now extinct \Xam of the Cape Province. The relevance of material obtained from the northern !Kung to the explic…
Ethnography and Iconography: Aspects of Southern San Thought and Art
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
This paper suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding southern San rock art. The traditional explanations have been either innatist or functionalist. To escape the tautology of the former and the restrictions of the latter it is suggested that the articulation between the art and the social relations of production be sought. This articulation was expressed in the activities of medicine men, whose symbolic work acted upon the reproduct…
Believing and Seeing: Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings
Believing and Seeing. Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings
More on San Rock Art
On the Social Context of Southern African Rock Art
Cognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art Research
A dream of eland: An unexplored component of San shamanism and rock art
Accounts of San (Bushman) shamanistic rock art have concentrated on the role of the trance dance in the generation of the paintings. This paper considers the role of dreaming to achieve ends similar to those served by the dance. Animal behaviour was depicted to suggest trance‐dreaming, as it was to suggest other shamanistic experiences. Sleeping eland probably represent San shamans in trance‐dreaming
The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic Art [and Comments and Reply]
On Palaeolithic Art and the Neuropsychological Model
On Neuropsychology and Shamanism in Rock Art
Discovering Southern African Rock Art
The rock paintings and engravings of southern Africa have long been considered obscure, yet research has managed since to piece together that message, and we now know that this beautiful and detailed art tells us about the religious experiences of the San (bushmen) who made it: centuries ago the San believed that the art carried messages from the spirit world. This book traces the story behind that research, how it started, its failures and succe…
On Vision and Power in the Neolithic: Evidence From the Decorated Monuments
Three-Dimensional Puzzles: Southern African and Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution, David Lewis-Williams reflects on the major reinterpretation of southern African rock art and Upper Palaeolithic art that took place in the 1970s and 1…
Three nineteenth-century Southern African San myths: A Study in Meaning
Indigenous significances of nineteenth-century |Xam San folktales are hard to determine from narrative structure alone. When verbatim, original-language records are available, meaning can be elicited by probing beneath the narrative and exploring the connotations of highly significant words and phrases that imply meanings and associations that narrators take for granted but that nonetheless contextualize the tales. Analyses of this kind show that…
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