부산대학교 도서관

It is largely through the work of David Lewis-Williams that San rock art has come to be understood so well as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious beliefs and practices. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate the depth and impact of his contribution, with particular emphasis on his use of theory and methodology drawn from ethnography, which he employed with inspirational effect in offering his understandings of the meaning and context of rock art. The title echoes Lewis-Williams’s Believing and Seeing, published almost 30 years ago, and the authors explore how to understand and learn from rock art with and without ethnography. Because many of the chapters are based on solid fieldwork and ethnographic research, they offer a new body of work that provides evidence for differentiation between knowing and simply seeing. Many chapters explore studies in rock art regions of the world where variation and constancy can be observed and explored across distances both in space and in time. This volume is unique because it focuses exclusively on rock art and ethnography and covers such a wide geographic range of examples from southern Africa to Scandinavia and the United States.