The politics of public rock art: a comparative critique of rock art sites open to the public in South Africa and the United states of America

[摘要] South African and American public rock art sites are in a predicament. Inboth countries, there is a lack of an adequate, theoretically informed butpractically implementable, conceptual approach to presenting these sites.This lack leads to the reproduction of stereotypes of rock art and theindigenous people who made it. This thesis suggests a way of rectifying thepresent situation. It is argued that any suggested reconstruction of publicrock art sites must recognise that they are implicated in identity-formation.Following this premise, a strategy, entitled metaphoric pilgrimage, issuggested, developed and applied to four rock art sites - two in SouthAfrica and two in America.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand