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Cosmology, San. --- San (African people) --- San (African people) --- Psychology. --- Religion.
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In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as 'formlings'. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botantical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings. It offers an innovative methodological approach for understanding subject matter in San rock art that is not easily recognisable, and will be an invaluable reference book to students and scholars in rock art studies and archaeology.
Termites --- San (African people) --- Cosmology, San. --- Art, San. --- Rock paintings --- Paintings, Rock --- Pictured rocks --- Rock drawings --- Archaeology --- Art, Prehistoric --- Painting, Prehistoric --- Picture-writing --- Petroglyphs --- Art, San (African people) --- San art --- San cosmology --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people) --- Dictyoptera --- Isoptera --- White ants --- Insects --- Termitomyces --- Symbolic aspects. --- Africa, Southern --- Southern Africa --- Antiquities.
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Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther’s two volumes on hunter-animal relations in San cosmology link “new Animism” with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians. In Volume I, therianthropes and transformations, two manifestations of ontological mutability that are conceptually and phenomenologically linked, are contextualized in broader San myth. Guenther explores the pervasiveness of human-animal hybridity and transformation in San expressive culture (myth, stories and storytelling, ludic dancing and art, ancestral rock art and contemporary easel art), ritual (trance dance curing, female and male rites of passage) and hunting. Transformation is shown to be experienced by humans, particularly via rituals and dancing that evoke animal identity mergers, but also by hunters who may engage with their prey animals in terms of sympathy and inter-subjectivity, particularly through the use of “hunting medicines.”.
Ethnology. --- Ethnography. --- Religion and sociology. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Social Anthropology. --- Religion and Society. --- African Culture. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ethnology—Africa. --- San (African people) --- Human-animal relationships --- Cosmology, San. --- Art, San --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Animism --- Religion. --- History. --- Themes, motives. --- San (African people) - Religion. --- Human-animal relationships - Africa, Southern - History. --- Art, San - Themes, motives. --- Hunting and gathering societies - Africa, Southern. --- Animism - Africa, Southern.
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