Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research
- ISBN-10
- 1868142469
- ISBN-13
- 9781868142460
- Category
- History / Africa / General
- Pages
- 437
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Witwatersrand University Press
- Authors
- J. David Lewis-Williams, Thomas A. Dowson
Description
This volume brings together the work of a number of scholars in the field of rock art studies who engage the so-called trance hypothesis in terms of their own empirical data and theoretical interests.
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