David Lewis-Williams
Autor de La mente en la caverna : la conciencia y los orígenes del arte
Sobre El Autor
David Lewis-Williams in Professor Emeritus and Senior Mentor in the Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Créditos de la imagen: J. David Lewis-Williams at Chauvet
Obras de David Lewis-Williams
Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of South Africa (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series) (2000) 18 copias
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- Nombre canónico
- Lewis-Williams, David
- Nombre legal
- Lewis-Williams, James David
- Otros nombres
- Lewis-Williams, J. David
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934-08-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- South Africa
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Educación
- University of Natal (PhD)
University of South Africa (BA)
University of Cape Town (BA) - Ocupaciones
- archaeologist
university professor - Organizaciones
- University of Witwatersrand
Rock Art Research Center - Premios y honores
- James Henry Breasted Prize (2003)
Supreme Counsellor, Order of the Baobab (2015)
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- Obras
- 21
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 883
- Popularidad
- #29,019
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 4
The authors review previous theories (art for art’s sake, totemism, sympathetic magic and structuralism) gauging how these theories helped or hindered our current understanding of prehistoric cave art. Examples are mostly drawn from southern Europe, but ethnographic comparisons are global. Late 20C neuropsychological research into the unity of hallucinogenic experience (3 stages of the trance state) is used as a springboard for interpretating ubiquitous symbols and construction methods across multiple locations and time periods.
Well written but occasionally appears sentences were muddled in translation from the French. The arguments build nicely up to the last chapter; at that point, where it does become more hypothetical, I did not always follow the argument. To keep the book shorter, I think some connecting thoughts and explanations may have been lost. A very good introduction to the cave art itself (although more images from other parts of the world would have been very helpful in seeing connections) and a solid foundation for proposing a shamanistic interpretation.… (más)