The purpose of Seeing and Knowing is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams' contribution to rock art research by emphasizing theory and methodology drawn from ethnography. Contributors explore what it means to understand and learn from rock art, and a contrast is drawn between those sites where it is possible to provide a modern, ethnographic context, and those sites where it is not. This is the definitive guide to the interplay between ethnography and rock art interpretation, and is an ideal resource for students and researchers alike.

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Cover
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
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Chapter 1 Rock art with and without ethnography
Chapter 2 Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven's things
Chapter 3 Snake and veil: The rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa
Chapter 4 Cups and saucers: A preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of sodilo Hills, northern Botswana
Chapter 5 Art and authorship in southern African rock art: Examining the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area
Chapter 6 Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: A modern-day study from Tanzania
Chapter 7 Art and belief: The ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West
Chapter 8 Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming
Chapter 9 Layer by layer: Precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating
Chapter 10 From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces
Chapter 11 Composite creatures in European Palaeolithic art
Chapter 12 Thinking strings: On theory, shifts and conceptual issues in the study of Palaeolithic art
Chapter 13 Rock art without ethnography? A history of attitude to rock art and landscape at Frøysjøen, western Norway
Chapter 14 'Meaning cannot rest or stay the same'
Chapter 15 Manica rock art in contemporary society
Chapter 16 Oral tradition, ethnography, and the practice of North American archaeology
Chapter 17 Beyond rock art: Archaeological interpretation and the shamanic frame
List of figures
List of tables
List of publications by David Lewis-Williams
Index

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