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Thomas A. Dowson
Publikováno v:
Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 19:378-387
The shamanistic interpretation of hunter-gatherer rock arts has in recent years been heavily criticized. Much of this criticism draws on some of the same fundamental flaws in the shamanistic approach to understanding rock arts. In this article I brie
Autor:
Thomas A. Dowson
Publikováno v:
World Archaeology. 32:161-165
(2000). Why queer archaeology? An introduction. World Archaeology: Vol. 32, Queer Archaeologies, pp. 161-165.
Autor:
Thomas A. Dowson
Publikováno v:
World Archaeology. 29:333-343
The interpretation of shamanic art runs into a number of hermeneutic problems. Most noticeably, hallucinatory images are perceived as graphic metaphors produced simply to explain shamans' experiences in the spirit-world. Interpretations along these l
Autor:
Thomas A. Dowson
Publikováno v:
World Archaeology. 25:332-345
This paper outlines a new role for rock art in the writing of southern African history. The old view of the art as a pictorial record of Stone Age life needs to be discarded. What has been learned about southern African rock art has raised the status
Publikováno v:
African Studies. 53:3-38
A celebrated and widely published work of art, long regarded as a copy of a Southern African rock painting, depicts a hunter disguised as an ostrich and stalking a troop of these birds. The ‘copy’, first published in 1905, is part of a collection
Autor:
Thomas A. Dowson
Publikováno v:
Antiquity. 67:641-644
A different vision from southern Africa challenges Mazel's view of the region's archaeology, and of the place for rock art in knowing its history.
Autor:
Thomas A. Dowson, J. D. Lewis-Williams
Publikováno v:
Current Anthropology. 34:55-65
L'A. fait une etude critique du modele neuropsychologique pour expliquer quelques aspects de la vision de l'art megalithique et des phenomenes geometriques entoptiques.