Rock art and changing perceptions of southern Africa's past

Ezeljagdspoort reviewed

Bibliographic Data

ID7657947
AuthorsDavid Lewis-Williams, David Lewis‐Williams (University of the Witwatersrand), Thomas A Dowson (University of the Witwatersrand), Janette Deacon
Year1993
Volume67
Issue255
Pages273-291
Publication date1993-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x0004535x
OpenAlexW1599421166
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited62

Since 1835 travellers and scholars have been looking at, and ‘reading’, a strange painting of apparently fish-tailed figures at Ezeljagdspoort, in the southern part of the Cape Province, South Africa. Each reading has been made within some external frame-of-reference, whether supposed histories of racial conflict or Jungian archetypes of child-like primitive insight. These set aside, a surer route to an ‘inside’ reading may be based on our knowledge of Bushman shamanism

Archaeology · Archetype · Art · Art history · Aside · Cape · Epistemology · Ethnology · Frame (networking) · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Painting · Perception · Reading (process) · Rock art · Shamanism · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Philosophy · South African History and Culture

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