The rock paintings of the Chumash : a study of a California Indian culture – Buch antiquarisch kaufen

leichte Gebrauchsspuren

XVIII, 163 Seiten

977 g

Berkeley

Hardcover/gebunden

Englisch

Gebrauchsspuren:
Schutzumschlag etwas mitgenommen, ansonsten im guten Zustand

Klappentext:
"Scattered through the coastal mountains of Southern California are many strangely painted caves and rocks. Reminders of the extinct Chumash Indians, the paintings until now have been little known to the general public because of their location in dense brush and mountainous terrain. During years of intensive field research, the author increased the number of known sites in the Chumash region from 19 to 80.
The paintings range in size from a few feet to more than fourty feet in length, and in kind from simple line drawings in red to complex polychrome designs. Although extraordinary for their beauty alone, the pictographs were intended for more than mere decorative purposes. They probably had symbolic and religious meaning and served as shrines or as places for the performance of ritual. Dozens of reproductions of the paintings are included in the book and discussed in terms of subjects, meaning, techniques and dating.
In the field of aboriginal North American prehistoric art, the study of rock paintings has been neglected by archaeologists because of difficulties of dating the paintings or of relating them to specific cultures. In attempting to answer the questions that come to mind - Who painted them? How old are they? What do they mean? - Mr. Grant has reconstructed the way of life of their creators, whose cultural "superiority" was noted in eighteenth-century Spanish descriptions of their behaviour and attitudes.
According to the distinguished American archaeologist, Robert F. Heizer, Mr. Grants book is "the definitive work on the rock paintings of the Chumash Indians, who are the most interesting of all the California tribes, and whose cave art is the finest in North America."

Nordamerika, USA, Kalifornien, Archäologie, Felsbild, Chumash, Native Americans, amerikanische Ureinwohner, Rock Paintings, Felsmalereien, Felsbild

1965

28.11.2024

BN0084