A dream of eland
An unexplored component of San shamanism and rock art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3138514 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J D Lewis‐william, J D Lewis‐Williams (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-177 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.1987.9980032 |
| OpenAlex | W2152707901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 21 |
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
Archaeology · Art · Dance · Dream · Ethnology · Psychotherapist · Rock art · Shamanism · Sociology · Trance · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology
Holocene later stone age hunter-gatherers south of the Limpopo River, Ca. 10,000-2000 B.P
At War with God
South African rock art
Red Lines and Arrows
Modelling the Production and Consumption of Rock Art
Ethnographic Evidence Relating to 'Trance' and 'Shamans' among Northern and Southern Bushmen
Capturing the Spoor
The Myth of Ritual Origins? Ethnography, Mythology and Interpretation of San Rock Art
Trivial pursuit? Interpreting San rock art in terms of the mystical bond between hunter and prey
Dreaming phenomena and palaeoart
Prehistoria de los sueños
Prehistoric Art as a Boundary Object
Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers
Southern African San Rock Painting as Social Intervention
Broken strings
Introduction. Shrines, substances and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa
What can we learn from shamans' dreaming? A cross-cultural exploration
Art on the rocks
Sleep, Dreaming, and the Imagination
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in San Forager Theories of Disease, and Its Implications for Understanding Images of Conflict in Southern African Rock Art
Tusk and transformation in southern African San rock art
Frogs or people
An introduction to the rock art of the Malilangwe Conservation Trust, southeastern Zimbabwe
Foraging potential of underground storage organ plants in the southern Cape, South Africa
Identifying the animal species used to manufacture bone arrowheads in South Africa
Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec
Revelations of religious reality
Enjeux patrimoniaux et identitaires autour des sites d'art rupestre sud-africains
San rock art
Putting the record straight
The death of trance
Communing with the Gods
Hunting on Heaven and Earth
Myths, Making, and Consciousness
On Archaeology and the Study of Ritual
Gender, representation, and power in San ethnography and rock art
Boiling energy
Believing and seeing
Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
Cattle, Sheep and Horses
The Trance Hypothesis and the Rock Art of Zimbabwe
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
Customs and Beliefs of the |Xam Bushmen
Trance Performance
The Last Testament of the Southern San
The Syntax and Function of the Giant's Castle Rock-Paintings
A Remarkable Kneeling Posture of Many Figures in the Rock-Art of South Africa
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
Elephants in Boxes
Trance and Possession States
Superpositioning in a Sample of Rock-Paintings from the Barkly East District
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
Sapience and scarce resources
Eland Hunting Rituals among Northern and Southern San Groups
The Medicine Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2023 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |