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Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using n Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Information 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Tables 11 1 The benefits of an ethnographically informed cognitive archaeology 12 Notes 27 References 27 2 Cognitive archaeology revisited: Agency, structure and the interpreted past 31 Archaeology and the neoliberal turn 33 Cognitive archaeology revisited 41 Cognition and culture 42 Cognitive universals, natural constants and structural principles 43 Commitment to scientific method 45 Ethnography and the Direct Historical Approach 46 Culture, society and cognitive archaeology 48 Conclusion 50 Notes 51 References 52 3 Ethnographic texts and rock art in southern Africa: A personal perspective 59 A journey to ethnography 59 New approaches 63 Unities in diversity 66 A central San ritual 68 Further insights 74 The fit between San ethnography and rock art 78 Ethnography and rock art 81 Acknowledgments 82 Note 82 Refere

Author

David S. Whitley & Johannes H.N. Loubser & Gavin Whitelaw

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2020

Language

EN