essay
Bushman art
Bushmen : San hunters and herders of southern Africa • Cape Town And Pretoria • Published In 1978 • Pages: 57-75
By: Rudner, Jalmar, Rudner, Ione.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The major focus of this study is rock art in the forms of paintings and petroglyphs found in southern Africa (primarily in Namibia and the Republic of South Africa. The authors discuss two major 'schools' of art in these specified regions -- the Formal School and the Cape Schematic School -- and how their artistic styles differ from one another. Painted burial stones are also described in the text as well as the pigments used in the paintings. The text is well illustrated.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- History
- Paint and dye manufacture
- Representative art
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Namibia, South Africa, southern Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jalmar and Ione Rudner
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79302323
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)