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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David S. Whitley , Johannes H.N. Loubser , Gavin WhitelawPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.810kg ISBN: 9781138068674ISBN 10: 1138068675 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 19 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. The benefits of an ethnographically informed cognitive archaeology; 2. Cognitive archaeology revisited: agency, structure and the interpreted past; 3. Ethnographic texts and rock art in southern Africa: a personal perspective; 4. Cultural traditions on the High Plains: Apishapa, Sopris, and High Plains Upper Republican; 5. Paquimé’s appeal: the creation of an elite pilgrimage site in the North American Southwest; 6. Ntshekane and the Central Cattle Pattern: reconstructing settlement history; 7. Homesteads, pots and marriage in southeast southern Africa: cognitive models and the dynamic past; 8. A cognitive approach to the ordering of the world: some case studies from the Sotho- and Tswana-speaking people of South Africa; 9. Anthropomorphic pottery effigies as guardian spirits in the Lower Mississippi Valley; 10. Upemba archaeology, Luba ethnography, and vice versa; 11. Gates between worlds: ethnographically informed management and conservation of petroglyph boulders in the Blue Ridge Mountains; 12. On the archaeology of elves; 13. Cognitive continuities in place: an exploration of enduring, site-specific ritual practices in the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence AreaReviewsAuthor InformationDavid S. Whitley specializes in the archaeology and ethnography of far western North America as well as rock art globally. He is a director at ASM Affiliates, Inc., a cultural resource management firm, in Tehachapi, California, and a research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Johannes H. N. Loubser is an archaeologist and rock art specialist at Stratum Unlimited LLC, Atlanta, and a research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. He specializes in rock art conservation and management but also conducts archaeological excavations when needed. Gavin Whitelaw is an archaeologist at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, South Africa, and an honorary lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research focuses on Iron Age farmers of southern Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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