Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches, and Indigenous Knowledges

ISBN-13: 9780367337803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 442 str.

Oscar Moro Abadía; Martin Porr

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Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basis for ground-breaking studies on Indigenous knowledges, relational metaphysics, and rock imageries.

 

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PART I Philosophical and Historical Perspectives 1 Rock Art and the Aesthetics of Hyperobjects 2 Rock Art and the Ontology of Images: The Ecology of Images in Hunter-Gatherer and Agrarian Rock Art 3 Rock Art, Shamanism, and the Ontological Turn 4 Ontology and Human Evolution: Neanderthal "Art" and the Method of Controlled Equivocation PART II Rock Art and Indigenous Knowledges 5 A Lesson in Time: Yanyuwa Ontologies and Meaning in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia 6 Paradigm Shifts and Ontological Turns at Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Australia 7 Lines of Becoming: Rock Art, Ontology, and Indigenous Knowledge Practices 8 Art, Representation, and the Ontology of Images: Some Considerations from the Wanjinawunggurr Tradition, Kimberley, Northwest Australia 9 Shifting Ontologies and the Use of Ethnographic Data in Prehistoric Rock Art Research PART III Humans, Animals, and More-than-Human Beings 10 "When Elephants Were People": Elephant/Human Images of the Olifants River, Western Cape, South Africa 11 Images-in-the-Making: Process and Vivification in Pecos River-Style Rock Art 12 Rock Art and Relational Ontologies in Canada 13 An Ontological Approach to Saharan Rock Art 14 The Faceless Men: Partial Bodies and Body Parts in Scandinavian Bronze Age Rock Art 15 Hunters and Shamans, Sex and Death: Relational Ontologies and the Materiality of the Lascaux "Shaft-Scene" PART IV Syncretism, Contact, and Contemporary Rock Art 16 Communities of Discourse: Contemporary Graffiti at an Abandoned Cold War Radar Station in Newfoundland 17 More Than One World? Rock Art that Is Catholic and Indigenous in Colonial New Mexico 18 Kwipek, Mi’kma’ki: Pemiaq Aqq Pilua’sik Ta’n Tel Amalilitu’n Kuntewiktuk/Continuity and Change in Mi’kmaw Petroglyphs at Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada 19 Indigenous Ontologies and the Contact Rock Art of Far West Texas 20 When the Virtual Becomes Actual: Indigenous Ontologies within Immersive Reality Environments