Entangled lives, relational ontology and rock paintings: Elephant and human figures in the rock art of the Western Cape, South Africa
From the form and composition of painted images of humans, elephants and ‘elephanthropes’ (elephant human therianthropes) from the northern Cederberg, we propose that elephants were considered as ‘other-than-human-persons’ by painters. This is supported by the role of elephants in San stories, the...
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| Language: | English |
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UJ Press
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Southern African Field Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/safa/article/view/1228 |
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