Nodes of Interaction

Abstract

Abstract This chapter describes the rock art of nineteenth-century Nomansland in the Maloti-Drakensberg region of South Africa. It explores a material and symbolic response to the arrival of European colonialists, particularly their practices of dress and animal husbandry that were frequently the setting for intercultural contact. The authors identify a specific form of rock art as an important ‘coping mechanism’, an attempt to manipulate, reorder, and control particular areas of social articulation. Important points of social continuity are ensured by enmeshing fine-line images that give reference to the ‘old’ ways of livestock raiding, with other stylistic depictions of the ‘new’, thereby serving to align multiple worldviews and language cultures into mutual understanding and collective identity.

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