A Painted Ridge: Rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (Paperback)

A Painted Ridge is a book about the San (Bushmen) practice of rock painting. In it, David Witelson explores a suite of spatially close San rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference. They are a microcosm that reflects, in a broad sense, a trend found at other painted sites in South Africa. Rather than attempting to explain these patterns chiefly in terms of chronological breaks or cultural discontinuities, this book seeks to understand patterns of similarity and difference primarily in terms of the performative nature of San image-making. In doing so, the bygone and almost unrecorded practice of San rock art is considered relative to ethnographically well-documented and observed forms of San expressive culture. The approach in the book draws on concepts and terminology from the discipline of performance studies to characterise the San practice of image-making as well as to coordinate otherwise disparate ideas about that practice. It is a study that aims to explicate the nuances of what David Lewis-Williams called the ‘production and consumption’ of San rock art.

General

Imprint:	Archaeopress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	David Mendel Witelson
Dimensions:	203 x 276 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-1-78969-244-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology Books > History > General
LSN:	1-78969-244-X
Barcode:	9781789692440

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