Author: Henry TindallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Two lectures on Great Namaqualand and its inhabitants
Author: Henry TindallRock Art and Sacred Landscapes
Author: Donna L. GillettePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461484065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.
History of South Africa Since September 1795. With Sixteen Maps and Charts
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
History of South Africa
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
History of South Africa since September 1795
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108023673
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
George McCall Theal (1837-1919) was a prolific South African historian and civil servant. After working as a missionary between 1875-1880 he was appointed magistrate of Tamacha before taking a position as a clerk in the government and became Keeper of the Cape Colony Archives. He was appointed Colonial Historiographer in 1891. These volumes, first published in 1908, contain Theal's detailed history of South Africa between 1795-1894. Focusing on the political history of the country, Theal explores the British control of Cape Colony and the reactions of the Dutch setters to increasing British immigration, discussing the political consequences of the establishment of the various Boer Republics and the growth of Zulu power in South Africa. These volumes provide valuable details on the political history of South Africa, and reveal contemporary attitudes towards the history and ideas of colonisation. Volume 5 covers the colonies between 1854-1894.
History of South Africa Since September, 1795
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art
Author: Jillian HuntleyPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784919993
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This volume, in honour of John Kay Clegg, consists of papers by rock art researchers from around the world on topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art.
Archival Theory, Chronology and Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Cape, South Africa
Author: Siyakha MguniPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784914479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations.
Hate the Old and Follow the New
Author: Tilman DederingPublisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515068727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The first comprehensive study of the interaction between the European missionaries and Africans in precolonial Namibia focusses on the expansion of the colonial frontier. Africans entered a new world of social relations where they faced the transformation of their societies in an ambivalent manner. Irrespective of the final, and unpredictable, outcome of the contest for power, many Africans encountered new challenges with initiative and determination. (Franz Steiner 1997)
Image-Makers
Author: David Lewis-WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498213
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Providing insight into an image-making process that became extinct at the end of the nineteenth-century, this book shows that, far from being trivial, hunter-gatherer rock art was embedded in religion. It explores the complex social relations of those who made rock art and why they made it.