| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 298 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Part 1. Theoretical Debates -- Chapter 1. Memories in the Making. Rock Art, Ecology and Differentiation -- Chapter 2. Memories and Rock Art in the Southern Andes: "This was left to us by the Incas" -- Chapter 3. Culture, Memory and Rock Art -- Chapter 4. Creation Processes Behind Rock Art: The Role of Memorization in Passing on Cultural Knowledge -- Part 2. The Memory of Rock Art in Non-Direct Ethnographic Contexts -- Chapter 5. Geographies of the Invisible: Rock Art, Memory and Ancestral Topologies in Western Iberia -- Chapter 6. Most Deserve to be Forgotten- Could the Southern Scandinavian Rock Art Memorialize Heroes? -- Chapter 7. Memories and Materiality. The Construction of Social Memory in Cerro Colorado -- Chapter 8. The Role of Rock Art in the Prevalence of Memory and Cultural Transmission -- Chapter 9. The Memory of Rock Art, Ethnography and Community Participation -- Chapter 10. River, Stone, and 'The Rain's Magic Power': Rock Art and Re-Membering in the Northern Cape, South Africa -- Chapter 11. Padeo Masire-Elements of the Culture of Respect among Humans, Nonhumans and Woritire (Petroglyph Sites) through a Tuyuka Perspective -- Chapter 12. Handprints, Footprints, and Hairwhorls: The Intersection of Petroglyphs, Cultural Identity, and Collective Memory in the American Southwest -- Index |
| Summary |
This book shares timely and thought-provoking methodological and theoretical approaches from perspectives concerning landscape, gender, cognition, neural networks, material culture and ontology in order to comprehend rock art's role in memorisation processes, collective memory, and the intergenerational circulation of knowledge. The case studies offered here stem from human experiences from around the globe--Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America--which reflects the authors' diverse interpretative stances. While some of the approaches deal with mnemonics, new digital technologies and statistical analysis, others examine performances, sensory engagement, language, and political disputes, giving the reader a comprehensive view of the myriad connections between memory studies and rock art. Indigenous interlocutors participate as collaborators and authors, creating space for Indigenous narratives of memory. These narratives merge with Western versions of past and recent memories in order to construct jointly novel inter-epistemic understandings of images made on rock. Each chapter demonstrates the commitment of rock art studies to strengthen and enrich the field by exploring how communities and cultures across time have perceived and entangled rock images with a broad range of material culture, nonhumans, people, emotions, performances, sounds and narratives. Such relations are pivotal to understanding the universe behind the intersections of memory and rock art and to generating future interdisciplinary collaborative studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 12, 2022) |
| Subject |
Rock paintings.
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Cultural property -- Protection.
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Collective memory.
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Art and society.
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Art and society
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Collective memory
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Rock paintings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zubieta, Leslie F., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030969424 |
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3030969428 |
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