Performing rock art
Contemporary resonances of shamanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11937875 |
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| Authors | Maxime Philippe (0000-0003-3540-7989, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 349-362 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03080188241255551 |
| OpenAlex | W4401277294 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
At the end of the twentieth century, after the discovery of the Chauvet cave, Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams, drawing on the latter's ethnographic fieldwork and neuroscientific study of trance states, jointly propounded a new shamanistic interpretation of Palaeolithic cave art. This approach, which belongs to a tradition of magical-religious exegesis of such art, stirred a heated controversy, which cast it as heterodox. Nevertheless, the shamanistic interpretation resonates with our contemporary culture. First, this approach helps to recast Palaeolithic art in the contemporary context and eventually helps elaborate a heterodox version of art history where contemporary and Palaeolithic art practices meet. Furthermore, the cultural reception and representation of this interpretation as heterodox reveals the impact of contemporary culture, media and technique on archaeology. Finally, it helps us to understand the heterodox Weltanschauung of Palaeolithic people. Just as the alternative worldviews of autochthonous people, it challenges our conception of the world which is essential in the context of the global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it impacts archaeological practices and merges geology and archaeology into an interdisciplinary palaeoscience
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cave · Cave painting · Contemporary art · Context (archaeology · Exegesis · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Rock art · Shamanism · Sociology · Trance · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Forgotten Dreams
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Naturalism’ and the interpretation of cave art
Cave Art and the Theory of Art
What Is Paleolithic Art
Analogical Evidence and Shamanism in Archaeological Interpretation
Rethinking the Structural Analysis of Palaeolithic Art
Structure, Signification, and Culture
Chamanisme et préhistoire. Un feuilleton à épisodes
Ontology and indigeneity
| Highly cited | No |
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