Blundell Geoffrey, Chippindale Christopher, Smith Benjamin (eds.) Seeing and Knowing: Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography

Routledge, 2016. — 327 p.The purpose of Seeing and Knowing is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams’ contribution to rock art research by emphasizing theory and methodology drawn from ethnography. Contributors explore what it means to understand and learn from rock art, and a contrast is drawn between those sites where it is possible to provide a modern, ethnographic context, and those sites where it is not. This is the definitive guide to the interplay between ethnography and rock art interpretation, and is an ideal resource for students and researchers alike.Geoffrey Blundell is Curator of the Origins Centre museum at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Christopher Chippindale is Reader in Archaeology and Curator for British Collections at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University. Benjamin Smith is Director of the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.