San rock art
Evidence and Argument
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3529488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J David Lewis-Williams, J D Lewis‐Williams (University of the Witwatersrand), David G Pearce (0000-0002-6354-3796, University of the Witwatersrand) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 345 |
| Pages | 732-739 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Antiquity Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15184/aqy.2014.51 |
| OpenAlex | W1813927681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
Whether or not a 'trance-dance' akin to that of today's Kalahari San (Bushmen) was performed by southern /Xam San in the nineteenth century has long been the subject of intense debate. Here the authors point to parallels between nineteenth-century records of San life and beliefs and twentieth-century San ethnography from the Kalahari Desert in order to argue that this cultural practice was shared by these two geographically and chronologically distant groups. More significantly, it is suggested that these ethnographic parallels allow a clearer understanding of the religious and ritual practices depicted in the southern San rock art images
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Dance · Desert (philosophy) · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Literature · Parallels · Rock art · Shamanism · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Trance · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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Cultured Representation
Myths, Making, and Consciousness
Taking Stock
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |