Eland, Hunters and Concepts of ‘Sympathetic Control’: Expressed in Southern African Rock Art

Francis Thackeray

52 citations0/0 files storedCambridge Archaeological Journal

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Archaeology and Rock Art Studies Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Australian Indigenous Culture and History

Abstract

Depictions of wounded or dying eland, juxtaposed with images of human or therianthropic figures ‘dying’ in trance or symbolically ‘wounded’, are discussed in the context of ‘sympathetic control’ expressed in southern African rock art. It is suggested that the development of concepts of control included the use of skin costumes in hunting contexts and in ritual, linked to concepts associated with trance.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 52 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2010Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress 2018Cross-Modality Information Transfer: A Hypothesis about the Relationship among Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Symbolic Thinking, and the Emergence of Language 2020Interpreting the Quina and demi-Quina scrapers from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave, Israel: Results of raw materials and functional analyses 2006The Evolution of Theory, Method and Technique in Southern African Rock Art Research 2019Birds in the Bronze Age 2019Image-Makers 2019Birds in the Bronze Age: A North European Perspective 2014Khoe-San ethnography, 'new animism' and the interpretation of southern African rock art

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.