Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context by Lewis-Williams, J. D.

Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781629581545)

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Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context by Lewis-Williams, J. D.

Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context

$200.00
Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context by Lewis-Williams, J. D.

Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to create a larger theory of how myth is used in culture. He extracts their "nuggets," the far-reaching but often unspoken words and concepts of language and understanding that are opaque to outsiders, to establish a more nuanced theory of the role of these myths in the thought-world and social circumstances of the San. The book -draws from the unique 19th century Bleek/Lloyd archives, more recent ethnographic work, and San rock art;-includes well-known San stories such as The Broken String, Mantis Dreams, and Creation of the Eland;-extrapolates from our understanding of San mythology into a larger model of how people create meaning from myth.

Author: J. D. Lewis-Williams
ISBN-10: 1629581542
ISBN-13: 9781629581545
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2015
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d

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J.D. Lewis-Williams is professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He founded and was former director of the highly-regarded Rock Art Research Institute at Wits University. He is internationally known for his ground-breaking work on the art and beliefs of the southern African San, the Upper Palaeolithic art and Neolithic monuments of western Europe, ancient shamanism, and the neuropsychology of religious experiences. Author of over 120 articles and nineteen books on these topics, he has been honored by the American Historical Association, the Society for American Archaeology, and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand. In 2000 he was invited to translate the post-apartheid South African national motto into the extinct /Xam San language.

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