The universality of shamanistic power and practice among today's hunter-gatherers - along with the similarity of rock art found in varied sites around the world - has led Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams to suggest in this new book that the great art of paleolithic caves ca…
The universality of shamanistic power and practice among today's hunter-gatherers - along with the similarity of rock art found in varied sites around the world - has led Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams to suggest in this new book that the great art of paleolithic caves ca…
Seeing and Knowing: Rock art with and without ethnography
by Blundell, Geoffrey, Chippindale, Christopher, Smith, Benjamin, Clottes, Jean, Conkey, Margaret W., Eastwood, Edward B., Francis, Julie E., Helskog, Knut, Lim, Imogene L., Loendorf, Lawrence L., Loubser, Johannes, Morris, David, Ouzman, Sven, Price, Neil, Saetersdal, Tore, Vinnicombe, Patricia, Walderhaug, Eva, Walker, Nick, Whitley, David S.
It is largely through the work of David Lewis-Williams that San rock art has come to be understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious beliefs and practices. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical im…