Ontologies of Rock Art : Images, Relational Approaches, and Indigenous Knowledges (Paperback)

PART I Philosophical and Historical Perspectives 1 Rock Art and the Aesthetics of Hyperobjects Graham Harman 2 Rock Art and the Ontology of Images: The Ecology of Images in Hunter-Gatherer and Agrarian Rock Art Andrew Meirion Jones 3 Rock Art, Shamanism, and the Ontological Turn David S. Whitley 4 Ontology and Human Evolution: Neanderthal "Art" and the Method of Controlled Equivocation Oscar Moro Abadia and Amy A. Chase PART II Rock Art and Indigenous Knowledges 5 A Lesson in Time: Yanyuwa Ontologies and Meaning in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia John Bradley, Amanda Kearney, and Liam M. Brady 6 Paradigm Shifts and Ontological Turns at Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Australia Bruno David et al. 7 Lines of Becoming: Rock Art, Ontology, and Indigenous Knowledge Practices John Creese 8 Art, Representation, and the Ontology of Images: Some Considerations from the Wanjinawunggurr Tradition, Kimberley, Northwest Australia Martin Porr 9 Shifting Ontologies and the Use of Ethnographic Data in Prehistoric Rock Art Research Ines Domingo Sanz PART III Humans, Animals, and More-than-Human Beings 10 "When Elephants Were People": Elephant/Human Images of the Olifants River, Western Cape, South Africa John Parkington and Jose M. De Prada-Samper 11 Images-in-the-Making: Process and Vivification in Pecos River-Style Rock Art Carolyn E. Boyd 12 Rock Art and Relational Ontologies in Canada Dagmara Zawadzka 13 An Ontological Approach to Saharan Rock Art Emmanuelle Honore 14 The Faceless Men: Partial Bodies and Body Parts in Scandinavian Bronze Age Rock Art Fredrik Fahlander 15 Hunters and Shamans, Sex and Death: Relational Ontologies and the Materiality of the Lascaux "Shaft-Scene" Robert J. Wallis PART IV Syncretism, Contact, and Contemporary Rock Art 16 Communities of Discourse: Contemporary Graffiti at an Abandoned Cold War Radar Station in Newfoundland Peter Whitridge and James Williamson 17 More Than One World? Rock Art that Is Catholic and Indigenous in Colonial New Mexico Darryl Wilkinson 18 Kwipek, Mi’kma’ki: Pemiaq Aqq Pilua’sik Ta’n Tel Amalilitu’n Kuntewiktuk/Continuity and Change in Mi’kmaw Petroglyphs at Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada Bryn Tapper 19 Indigenous Ontologies and the Contact Rock Art of Far West Texas Jamie Hampson 20 When the Virtual Becomes Actual: Indigenous Ontologies within Immersive Reality Environments David Robinson, Colin Rosemont, Devlin Gandy, and Brendan Cassidy