04081nam 2200457 450 991082417070332120231110215626.01-78969-245-8(CKB)4100000012027326(MiAaPQ)EBC6728898(Au-PeEL)EBL6728898(EXLCZ)99410000001202732620220601d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA painted ridge rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa /David Mendel WitelsonOxford, England :Archaeopress Publishing Limited,[2019]©20191 online resource (164 pages)Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology ;v.98Includes bibliographical references.Intro -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: A PAINTED RIDGE -- The problem with 'sites' -- An overview of previous Maclear District rock art research -- Ethnographic analogy and San performance -- Documenting the MR sites -- Recording MR rock art -- Digital enhancements -- Enhancing the MEL ridge -- From observations to theory -- CHAPTER 2: PERFORMANCE THEORY -- Performance Studies and South African rock art research -- Performance Studies -- Performance -- Ritual -- Performativity -- The ethnography of performance -- A Kaluli séance -- San expressive culture and performances -- From theory to ethnography -- CHAPTER 3: DANCING AND PAINTING-A PERFORMATIVE DYAD? -- Trancing with friends, dancing with death -- Interactions during a trance dance -- The dancers and the women who clap and sing -- Dancers, participants, and the dance fire -- N|om seekers and masters -- Masters and other masters -- Dancers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Special curing ceremonies -- From dancing to painting -- CHAPTER 4: BEHIND THE SCENES -- The process behind image-making -- The four stages -- Acquisition of imagery -- Manufacture of paint -- Making rock paintings -- Using rock paintings -- From ritual process to interactive images -- CHAPTER 5: PAINTED AND IMPLIED INTERACTIONS -- Interactions between image-makers and the rock face -- Depressions and containment -- Cracks, steps and edges -- Idiosyncratic uses of the rock face -- From simple interaction to complex interactions -- Interactions between image-makers and images on the rock face -- Interactions between image-makers and animals -- Interactions between image-makers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Interactions between the viewers and the images -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: SHELTERED PERFORMANCES -- The criteria for image-making performances -- Who actually made the images?.The ritual of image-making performances -- Reality, non-reality and the social construction of reality -- Image-makers and failure -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: COMING TO TERMS WITH DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES -- Limitations -- Insights from performance theory and future directions -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: SITE MEASUREMENTS -- APPENDIX B: SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS -- APPENDIX C: IMAGE COUNTS -- APPENDIX D: DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT PROCEDURES -- PROCEDURE 1 -- PROCEDURE 2 -- References.This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) 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.Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Rock paintingsSouth AfricaMaclearSan (African people)AntiquitiesRock paintingsSan (African people)Antiquities.709.01130968757Witelson David Mendel1668929MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824170703321A painted ridge4029883UNINA