Thomas a Dowson (23 results)
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Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.Black Cat Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oblong hard bound with dust jacket. Front hinge cracked, but holding well. The dust jacket shows some minor edge wear, otherwise very good.
Language: English
Published by (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2001) 1868142469 1994
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219 x 149 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 437; numerous illustrations, maps, tables. Earlier owner's name signed on half-title. Fine condition. "The volume brings together the work of a number of scholars who have critically examined what has come to be known as the 'trance hypothesis'. Though they reach consensus ab…out the value of the hypothesis, they raise questions about points of detail and the applicability of the hypothesis to all paintings and engravings. Many of the chapters engage in wider issues that impinge on other disciplines, such as linguistics and folklore studies, demonstrating the relationship between them and rock art. The work includes an overview of the development of rock art studies, showing how the approach has been modified in the light of criticisms and new insights.".
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally, clean. Tightly bound. r*30/10/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The wraps are shelf rubbed with creasing along the edges. The binding is secure. Light browning along the edges of the pages, not affecting text. No ink inscriptions or annotations. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. r*05/12/2024 JHK. Our orders are shi…pped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 124 pages (complete). Landscape format. In good, sound condition. The dustjacket is sunned and lightly worn about the edges. It is secure and comfortable. The boards are healthy and sure with some wear about the edges from storage. Within, the contents are m…ost pleasing. The pages are well ordered, clean, clear, confident, generous and assured.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[RF31] fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Paperback. Condition: New. This is a comprehensive study of the rock engravings of southern Africa, illustrating the major and more interesting engravings made by the Bushmen of the region. The beauty and variety of these engravings is revealed in full-colour photographs and rubbings. Their significance, meaning and mode of exec…ution are discussed in the accompanying text, where the importance of the site is also explained. Thomas Dowson's research shows that there are strong indications that engravings, like rock paintings, have ritual associations and that they were executed by shamans after trance. Interviews with some of the present inhabitants of the region, and folk tales relating to the animals depicted in the engravings, amplify our understanding of the creative impetus responsible for these masterpieces. This book is a tribute to the Bushmen engravers of successive ages and to the magnificence of their work. It should be appreciated by archaeologists, anthropologists and students of southern Africa.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a comprehensive study of the rock engravings of southern Africa, illustrating the major and more interesting engravings made by the Bushmen of the region. The beauty and variety of these engravings is revealed in full-colour photographs and rubbings. Their significance, meaning and m…ode of execution are discussed in the accompanying text, where the importance of the site is also explained. Thomas Dowson's research shows that there are strong indications that engravings, like rock paintings, have ritual associations and that they were executed by shamans after trance. Interviews with some of the present inhabitants of the region, and folk tales relating to the animals depicted in the engravings, amplify our understanding of the creative impetus responsible for these masterpieces. This book is a tribute to the Bushmen engravers of successive ages and to the magnificence of their work. It should be appreciated by archaeologists, anthropologists and students of southern Africa. A study of the rock engravings of Southern Africa, this book presents photographs illustrating the major and more interesting engravings made by the bushmen of the region. The significance, meaning and mode of execution of each are discussed, and the importance of the site is explained. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Publication of 300 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. There are highlighted parts within the body of the book. The text remains legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Voices from the Past : /Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (The Khoisan Heritage Series)
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally, light foxing. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r*16/07/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. the jacket has small edge tears and shelf rubbed. slight creasing. light marks. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.O.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Seller: Moraine Books, Ruovesi, FinlandMoraine Books
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Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Text in English. 437 pp. Rock art, once considered by most to be merely a 'quaint' representation ot the lite-style and vision of a 'primitive' people, is assuming an ever greater importance in academic debate. Rock art research, believed by some to be the field of the future, may well play a pr…ominent role in the understanding of Southern African history at this time when received colonial perspectives are being rejected. Certainly, its integration with archaeology is producing an increasingly complete picture of changing settlement and ideology over the last two thousand years. New theoretical developments are opening up the field in ways that were undreamed of in the past and, in exploring some of them, this collection of papers offers a way to better understanding of a once neglected art form. The volume brings together the work of a number of scholars who have critically examined what has come to be known as the 'trance hypothesis'. Though they reach consensus about the value of the hypothesis, they raise questions about points of detail and the applicability of the hypothesis to all paintings and engravings. Many of the chapters engage in wider issues that impinge on other disciplines, such as linguistics and folklore studies, demonstrating the relationship between them and rock art. The work includes an overview of the development of rock art studies, showing how the approach has been modified in the light of criticisms and new insights.
Published by University of the Witwatersrand 1988
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. stapled format, 48 pages. shelf wear on the wraps. some usage markings. sound binding. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Jacket is shelf rubbed.Internally clean.Excellent binding.As new.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 135 pages. 9.85x13.80x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The jacket is a bit marked and edgeworn. Some damp damage. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Seller: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, , SwitzerlandBasler Afrika Bibliographien
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Hardcover. Condition: Gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Leichtere Gebrauchsspuren.
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Seller: Moraine Books, Ruovesi, FinlandMoraine Books
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Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 3rd Printing. 300 pp. Text in English. The papers in this volume, which is the first published work to deal exclusively with the Bleek and Lloy L.C. Lloyd in the field of Khoisan studies in southern Africa. Wilhelm Bleek and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd documented the language of the |Xam Bushmen by…taking down by dictation, in a phonetic script they had developed, more than 12,000 pages of folklore, accounts of daily life, and descriptions of rituals. Since the 1870s this ethnographic material has been used extensively by linguists, folklorists and archaeologists, and this book brings together researchers from these diverse but related fields. The first part of the book describes these two unusual personalities and their work, the second the research that has followed. It thus not only presents a detailed biographical account of the Bleek family's work with the /Xam informants, it also represents a contemporary position on the status of their ethnographic collection.
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Seller: Antikvariat Faust, Göteborg, , SwedenAntikvariat Faust
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Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg 1996. (6), 300 pp. Paperback. Fine condition.
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Condition: New. Über den AutorThomas A DowsonKlappentext.
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Seller: Rarewaves USA United, OSWEGO, IL, U.S.A.Rarewaves USA United
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Paperback. Condition: New. This is a comprehensive study of the rock engravings of southern Africa, illustrating the major and more interesting engravings made by the Bushmen of the region. The beauty and variety of these engravings is revealed in full-colour photographs and rubbings. Their significance, meaning and mode of exec…ution are discussed in the accompanying text, where the importance of the site is also explained. Thomas Dowson's research shows that there are strong indications that engravings, like rock paintings, have ritual associations and that they were executed by shamans after trance. Interviews with some of the present inhabitants of the region, and folk tales relating to the animals depicted in the engravings, amplify our understanding of the creative impetus responsible for these masterpieces. This book is a tribute to the Bushmen engravers of successive ages and to the magnificence of their work. It should be appreciated by archaeologists, anthropologists and students of southern Africa.
Published by Witwatersrand University Press, South Africa 1996
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Soft. Condition: Good. '/Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection.' Soft covers clean and tidy, very lightly edgeworn, spine sunned, pencil lines to the margins of some pages, otherwise 300 pages very clean and bright. Size: 8vo.
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Hardcover. Condition: gut. 1992. Rock Engravings of Southern Africa In deutscher Sprache. pages.
