War Stories
eBook - ePub

War Stories

Reading Plains Indian Biographic Rock Art

  1. 500 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

War Stories

Reading Plains Indian Biographic Rock Art

About this book

Plains Indian biographic rock art can be "read" by those knowledgeable in its lexicon. Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. The reader is introduced to Plains Indian "warrior" art in all media, biographic art as picture writing is explained, and the lexicon is described, providing a pictographic "dictionary," and explains conventions and connotations. Finally, it illustrates four key examples of how these narratives are read by the observer. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alberta through ten U.S. states, and into the Mexican state of Coahuila.

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Yes, you can access War Stories by James D. Keyser,David Kaiser in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Art General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781800739741
eBook ISBN
9781800739758

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Vignettes
  7. Preface. Navigating through the Book
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1. Biographic Art as Picture Writing
  11. Chapter 2. The Biographic Art Lexicon
  12. Chapter 3. The Pictographic Dictionary
  13. Chapter 4. Conventions and Connotations
  14. Chapter 5. Reading the Narratives
  15. Appendix I. Site Names and Numbers for Figure 1.1, North and South Halves
  16. Appendix II. Source Materials and Site Index for Illustrations
  17. Appendix III. Identification of Source Materials for Figures
  18. Glossary
  19. References
  20. Index