| Edition |
English-language edition. |
| Description |
212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211). |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Rock paintings -- Africa.
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| ISBN |
2080304445 hardback |
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