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Title: | Southern African San Rock Painting as Social Intervention: A Study of Rain-Control Images |
Authors: | Lewis-Williams, J. David Pearce, David G. |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 199-228 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | San rock art prehistory Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Anthropology and Archaeology Architecture and the Arts |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-004-0749-2 |
Abstract: | Many aspects of southern African San rock art images can be understood in the light of nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnography. San beliefs about different kinds of 'rain-animals' and the secrecy that attended rain-control rites informed different kinds of social relations between raincontrollers themselves and between them and other people. San communities were less egalitarian than is often supposed, though on grounds that are commonly overlooked. These points are made in reference to a hitherto unknown painted site in the eastern Free State Province of South Africa. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |