Cognitive Archaeology (eBook, PDF)

Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond
Redaktion: Whitley, David; Whitelaw, Gavin; Loubser, Johannes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond interprets the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351654401
• Artikelnr.: 58331325

Autorenporträt

David S. Whitley specializes in the archaeology and ethnography of far western North America as well as rock art globally. He is a director at ASM Affiliates, Inc., a cultural resource management firm, in Tehachapi, California, and a research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Johannes H. N. Loubser is an archaeologist and rock art specialist at Stratum Unlimited LLC, Atlanta, and a research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. He specializes in rock art conservation and management but also conducts archaeological excavations when needed. Gavin Whitelaw is an archaeologist at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, South Africa, and an honorary lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research focuses on Iron Age farmers of southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The benefits of an ethnographically informed cognitive archaeology; 2.
Cognitive archaeology revisited: agency, structure and the interpreted
past; 3. Ethnographic texts and rock art in southern Africa: a personal
perspective; 4. Cultural traditions on the High Plains: Apishapa, Sopris,
and High Plains Upper Republican; 5. Paquimé's appeal: the creation of an
elite pilgrimage site in the North American Southwest; 6. Ntshekane and the
Central Cattle Pattern: reconstructing settlement history; 7. Homesteads,
pots and marriage in southeast southern Africa: cognitive models and the
dynamic past; 8. A cognitive approach to the ordering of the world: some
case studies from the Sotho- and Tswana-speaking people of South Africa; 9.
Anthropomorphic pottery effigies as guardian spirits in the Lower
Mississippi Valley; 10. Upemba archaeology, Luba ethnography, and vice
versa; 11. Gates between worlds: ethnographically informed management and
conservation of petroglyph boulders in the Blue Ridge Mountains; 12. On the
archaeology of elves; 13. Cognitive continuities in place: an exploration
of enduring, site-specific ritual practices in the Shashe-Limpopo
Confluence Area