Cognitive Archaeology : Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond /: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Whitley, Johannes Loubser, Gavin Whitelaw.
• Editors: Whitley, David; Loubser, Johannes; Whitelaw, Gavin
• Contents: 1. Introduction: benefits of an ethnographically informed cognitive archaeology David S. Whitley, Johannes H.N. Loubser, and Gavin Whitelaw 2. Cognitive archaeology revisited: agency, structure and the interpreted past. David S. Whitley 3. Ethnographic texts and rock art in southern Africa: a personal perspective. J.D. Lewis-Williams 4. Cultural traditions on the High Plains: Apishapa, Sopris, and High Plains Upper Republican. Thomas N. Huffman and Frank Lee Earley 5. Paquimé’s appeal: the creation of an elite pilgrimage site in the North American Southwest. Todd L. VanPool and Christine S. VanPool 6. Ntshekane and the Central Cattle Pattern: reconstructing settlement history. Thomas N. Huffman and Gavin Whitelaw 7. Homesteads, pots and marriage in southeast southern Africa: cognitive models and the dynamic past. Gavin Whitelaw 8. A cognitive approach to the ordering of the world: some case studies from the Sotho- and Tswana-speaking people of South Africa. Johan van Schalkwyk 9. Anthropomorphic pottery effigies as guardian spirits in the Lower Mississippi Valley. David H. Dye 10. Upemba archaeology, Luba ethnography, and vice versa. Pierre de Maret 11. Gates between worlds: ethnographically informed management and conservation of petroglyph boulders in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Johannes H.N. Loubser and Scott Ashcraft 12. On the archaeology of elves. Joakim Goldhahn 13. Cognitive continuities in place: an exploration of enduring, site-specific ritual practices in the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence Area. M.H. Schoeman
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages), (20 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351654395
• Related ISBNs: 135165439X
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