Rock Art of the Caribbean

Rock Art of the Caribbean
Author: Michele Hayward
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0817355308

Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.

Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Projections

Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Projections
Author: Richard Alleyne Rogers
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Appropriation (Art)
ISBN: 9781607816195

"Recent decades have seen an upsurge in visitation to rock art sites, as well as an increase in commercial reproduction of rock art and attempts to understand the meaning and function of that art within the indigenous cultures that produced it. What motivates this growing interest and what do these interpretations and appropriations of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs reveal about contemporary cultural dynamics? Focusing on the southwestern U.S., this book critically examines the contemporary implications of the interpretation, appropriation, commodification, and management of indigenous rock art. Neither archaeological interpretations nor commercial reproductions of rock art operate in a cultural vacuum. Both the motivation to seek out rock art and the specific meanings attached to it are deeply embedded in narratives about Native Americans already created by anthropologists, archaeologists, photographers, novelists, film and television producers, the tourism industry, and New Age discourse. For those interested in rock art as a window into indigenous cultures of the past, our contemporary projections of meanings are of great concern. Applying the tools of critical/cultural studies to both academic and popular discourse, Rogers explores the implications of such projections for rock art studies, contemporary gender dynamics, and the neocolonial relationship between Euro-Americans and Native Americans"--Provided by publisher.

The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri

The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri
Author: Carol Diaz-Granados
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2000-03-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0817309888

This comprehensive guide to the rock art of Missouri presents major design motifs and links those images to Native American beliefs.

Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present

Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present
Author: Andrzej Rozwadowski
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789698472

This book presents a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. It focuses on how ancient heritage is recognized and reified in the modern world, and how rock art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making.

The Rock Art of Arizona

The Rock Art of Arizona
Author:
Publisher: Kiva Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN:

A mouse couple, in search of the mightiest husband for their daughter, approach the sun, the clouds, the wind, and a butte, before the unexpected victor finally appears.

Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Oregon Country

Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Oregon Country
Author: J. Malcolm Loring
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1996-12-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1938770749

The result of twenty years of searching out and recording ancient designs on rocks in Oregon and Washington, Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Oregon Country is now in a convenient, one-volume edition. The authors, Malcolm and Louise Loring, began their monumental task in the early 1960s as members of the Oregon Archaeological Society committee dedicated to surveying and recording rock art. Soon finding themselves a committee of two, they soldiered on with the monumental task of cataloging and illustrating rock art of the region. After Malcolm retired from the US Forest Service in 1963, he and Louise began a full-time effort to record the sites. For many of these sites, this volume is the only record. Part I describes sites in Washington along the Columbia River and sites in northern and central Oregon. Part II contains sites in southern Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada.

Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge

Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Author: Leslie F. Zubieta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030969428

This book shares timely and thought-provoking methodological and theoretical approaches from perspectives concerning landscape, gender, cognition, neural networks, material culture and ontology in order to comprehend rock art’s role in memorisation processes, collective memory, and the intergenerational circulation of knowledge. The case studies offered here stem from human experiences from around the globe—Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America—, which reflects the authors’ diverse interpretative stances. While some of the approaches deal with mnemonics, new digital technologies and statistical analysis, others examine performances, sensory engagement, language, and political disputes, giving the reader a comprehensive view of the myriad connections between memory studies and rock art. Indigenous interlocutors participate as collaborators and authors, creating space for Indigenous narratives of memory. These narratives merge with Western versions of past and recent memories in order to construct jointly novel inter-epistemic understandings of images made on rock. Each chapter demonstrates the commitment of rock art studies to strengthen and enrich the field by exploring how communities and cultures across time have perceived and entangled rock images with a broad range of material culture, nonhumans, people, emotions, performances, sounds and narratives. Such relations are pivotal to understanding the universe behind the intersections of memory and rock art and to generating future interdisciplinary collaborative studies.

Images and Power

Images and Power
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-11-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461458226

​Ethics and Rock Art: Images and Power addresses the distinctive ways in which ethical considerations pertain to rock art research within the larger context of the archaeological ethical debate. Marks on stone, with their social and religious implications, give rise to distinctive ethical concerns within the scholarly enterprise as different perceptions between scholars and Native Americans are encountered in regard to worldviews, concepts of space, time, and in the interpretation of the imagery itself. This discourse addresses issues such as the conflicting paradigms of oral traditions and archaeological veracity, differing ideas about landscapes in which rock art occurs, the intrusion of “desired knowledge”, and how the past may be robbed by changing interpretations and values on both sides. Case studies are presented in regard to shamanism and war-related imagery. Also addressed are issues surrounding questions of art, aesthetics, and appropriation of imagery by outsiders. Overall, this discourse attempts to clarify points of contention between Euro-American scholars and Native Americans so that we can better recognize the origins of differences and thus promote better mutual understanding in these endeavors.