Rock art in Africa : mythology and legend
| 1. Verfasser: |
Le Quellec, Jean-Loïc, 1951-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Paris :
Flammarion,
2004.
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| Ausgabe: | English-language edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
212 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 32 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Afrika |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The Sahara
- Elias, mast of the rain and guardian of the desert
- Lhote and the lotori
- Levi-Strauss in the Sahara
- A very old "story of the eye"
- The "swimmers" of The English patient
- Elephantine loves
- The intertropical zone
- In Mali: images of Dogon country
- In Burkina Faso: weapons, reptiles, and goblin prints
- In Nigeria: "ceremony mountains," pictograms, and lithophones
- Cameroon, Central African republic, Congo, Gabon: circles and lines, throwing knives, and chameleons
- Democratic republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Angola: "fetish stones," tattooed pebbles, sand images
- Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia: ancestor cult and Nyau masquerades
- Azania
- Boophilia in the kingdom of coffee
- Attempts at attribution
- The magical drawings of the Sandawe
- Ethnogony and images of the dead
- Caves of spirits and rainmakers
- Funerary signs
- Harla, Germans, Portuguese, and other savages
- Antecedents, new uses, meanings
- Southern Africa
- First approaches
- The myth of the "white lady"
- Corpus and statistics
- From image to myth
- Dates
- The quest for meaning
- A few doubts ..."
- Trance of therianthropes or dance of masked men?
- Not just for the San!
- The legend of the blue ostriches
- Mermaids, water maidens, and aquatic dead people
- The power of the eland
- Shamans of mythical beings?
- The story of the frog-girl.
